05-05-2016 20:48 via salon.com

Data journalism didn’t fail: Nate Silver pushes back after The New York Times blasts him for getting Donald Trump so wrong

Nate Silver(Credit: AP/Nam Y. Huh)
“7 Times Nate Silver Was Hilariously Wrong About Donald Trump,” a triumphant Daily Caller headline read the morning after Trump became the “presumptive” Republican nominee.
There was the time back in September 2015 when Silver implored people to “calm down” about the possibility of Trump winning the Republican nomination. Two months later he wrote, “stop freaking out about Donald Trump’s polls,” calling
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