Kossack bosshijack diaried the profile of Nate Silver in New York Times. It is a nice piece and interesting for those who, like me, were not aware of Nate's background as a baseball statistics fanatic.
I would like to draw your attention to the last two paragraphs of the article which struck a chord with some thoughts I've been having over the last few months.
One thing Mr. Silver cannot predict: what happens now. He...will continue with FiveThirtyEight, using it to predict Congressional votes during the Obama administration — if anyone cares.
"That’s the paradox," he said. "You would think that you elect this guy and you want him to effect change, and then he gets elected, and people don’t care about bills being passed."
I think this is indeed a paradox. The question is how do we go about "car[ing] about bills being passed?"
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