Nate Silver: A Revolutionary Figure in Political Reporting

"I owe a lot of my interest in politics and the numbers from politics to Nate Silver," he says. "The idea that the Times put this number guy who has no basis in political reporting on their site, you know, used him in a truly sort of efficient way." The ability for reporters to just say completely nonsensical, numerically deficient things has gone because now if a reporter just tweets like 'Nikki Haley is surging' people have mechanisms to say what are you talking about?