#pol

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#desire #figure #help #his #ideals

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil. ↗

— Nate Silver

#good #i #more #now #poll

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. ↗

— Nate Silver

#baseball #game #just #much #poll

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. ↗

— Nate Silver

#cover #first #first of all #i #i think

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt. ↗

— Nate Silver

#guess #i #like #much #people

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. ↗

— Nate Silver

#i #i think #kind #market #polling

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. ↗

— Nate Silver

#competition #data #discovered #i #like

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. ↗

— Nate Silver

#event #foreign #foreign policy #gets #major

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. ↗

— Nate Silver

#getting #off #one thing #people #politics

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake. ↗

— Nate Silver

#hampshire #instance #miss #mistake #new