It was shaping up to be a classic 'Revenge of the Nerds' scenario. In one corner, we had Nate Silver, the stats whiz whose algorithmic models have correctly called everything from baseball rankings to the 2008 and 2010 elections. In the other, a pundit class with little on their side other than gut feelings and loud voices.
Then tempers flared on Twitter -- and Silver suddenly found himself, rather than his numbers, at the center of the story.
Silver, whose poll-based analysis site FiveThirtyEight.com was bought by the New York Times two years ago, takes a nonpartisan, statistical approach to the election. His model doesn't cherry-pick polls, but weighs them based on how accura…
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