Geez. We make fun of Trump for his thin skin but maybe we should, like, never do that again if a single joke at Democrats’ expense is going to generate 20 think pieces. Has the petition to have Jost fired and his fields sowed with salt been posted?

this reaction to this joke is why democrats lost the election

You know Gawker went under, right Rich? No need for snarking on a reasonable guy saying mostly admirable things anymore. Being shitty for no reason turned out not to be edgy or cool, just a dick move.

I’m getting young Norm Macdonald after two bottles of wine.

“She never once went to Wisconsin.”

Exactly. Silver has nothing to apologize for. He constantly pushed the theme that the election was close, that Trump continued to have a real chance. He pointed out that there had been polling errors in past elections that, if they occurred here, would make the race essentially a tie, and that Clinton’s firewall of…

IT IS NOT NATE SILVER’S FAULT THAT PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND PROBABILITIES. He gave Trump a higher chance of winning the presidency than the Cubs had of coming back and winning the World Series after Game 4 and we literally all JUST saw that happen. He doesn’t conduct the polls, he aggregates them, and there was no way…

I seem to remember an article right here on the Giz network that said “STFU you haters, Hillz got this 100%”. They even blamed Silver for “being afraid of being wrong”. Ha ha. And now they’re... making fun of Silver for being wrong? Splendid, guys, splendid.

I blame the polls more than Nate. 538.com is not a polling website. All they do is collect the polls and put them into a model. What is spewed out are the results of that data.

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the polls were correct but they caused enough complacency that people just didn’t turn out. Both sides got less votes than the last election, the difference was that Trump only lost ~500k while Hillary was down ~5m.

Gwen. I don’t blame you for leaving, but look where you left us :(

God, really fucking sick of this, “um, actually it will be fine” shit.

When they’re casting the stones? Fuck yes.

Do you think Alex was the only person to say this?

Oh, the polls? Yes, let’s talk about how they were so reliable we can base complete hypotheticals on them with any degree of certainty.

Not too busy, but just didn’t want to:

“I guess I’m one of the mythical “undecided voters,” in that I am undecided as to whether I will vote at all... ...If the Democrats needed my vote I’d cast it, but they don’t, and so I don’t really know why I’d bother...” - Alex Pareene, ladies and gentlemen!

Oh look, the shithead who was too smart to vote yesterday is now pissed off. Fuck you, you self-righteous asshole.

Weren’t you too busy to vote yesterday?

James Buchanan? Whose Presidency preceeded the Civil War?