You know things are bad when you have lost pollster Nate Silver. On Monday, the FiveThirtyEight founder told his podcast listeners that Hillary Clinton ran the “most negative campaign in history.” Coming from Silver, the statement is refreshing.
Washington Free Beacon reports:
Silver, the editor-in-chief of the data website FiveThirtyEight, said that Clinton doesn’t get enough criticism for running a negative campaign.
“She ran by various measures the most negative campaign in history and she was successful,” Silver said. “Although Trump helped himself a lot, she was successful at making Trump very unpopular. She didn’t think about ‘how do I make myself more popular’ as much.”
Silver said that Clinton also didn’t think about the 15 percent of people who didn’t like either candidate and that she could have won the election had she gotten even half of those voters.
Following Trump’s decisive victory, Silver was reduced to an internet troll. FiveThirtyEight website’s Nate Silver was still sore from his inaccurate ‘prediction’ that Hillary Clinton was going to be elected. Silver released some of his frustration on Twitter in December by mocking President-elect Donald Trump’s call for expanded nuclear capabilities by predicting what all-out nuclear war could do to the electoral map.
Here's what the electoral map would look like if only people who weren't burnt to a crisp in the nuclear holocaust voted. pic.twitter.com/MsrkuOjZWi
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 23, 2016
Silver’s Tweet was in response to a Trump tweet on the subject.
The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2016
Here is more ‘BRILLIANCE’ coming out of Nate Silver’s mind:
Oops Wrong Again…
Usually hate these 12-dimensional chess arguments, but seems possible Trump floated Tillerson expecting to withdraw him later… https://t.co/16R7Y5c57x
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 11, 2016
Oh so sad…
I'll put it like this: Clinton would almost certainly be President-elect if the election had been held on Oct. 27 (day before Comey letter).
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 11, 2016
Those pesky FBI investigations…
Clinton lost 4 states (FL, MI, WI, PA) by ~1 point. If not for Comey/Russia, she probably wins them all by ~2 points & strategy looks great.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 10, 2016