You Don’t Need Nate Silver to ‘Predict’ a GOP Win This Fall

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The tempest over his projection that Republicans will take the Senate forgets probability isn’t prediction and that the White House party usually loses in its sixth year.

Published Mar. 26 2014 4:00PM EDT

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When Chicago White Sox star Shoeless Joe Jackson was accused of helping to throw the 1919 World Series, legend has it that a teary-eyed youngster confronted him, pleading, “Say it ain’t so, Joe!”

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I would not be at all surprised if, sometime in the next few days, a teary-eyed Democratic campaign...

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You Don’t Need Nate Silver to ‘Predict’ a GOP Win This Fall

The tempest over his projection that Republicans will take the Senate forgets probability isn’t prediction and that the White House party usually loses in its sixth year.

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