Opinion of Nate Silver

[Free Bird]

Leans FF, but he still makes weird assumptions because of his weird numbers-only methodology, like Alaska becoming a swing state because the Democrats had a generally good year in 2012 yet still lost the state horribly. His analyses, while soulless and coming across as being done as an essay by a high schooler that doesn't actually care about the subject matter, are still worth paying attention to, even if he missed quite a few marks last year.

[Free Bird]

A shining example of what happens when you treat politics like a math formula.

Like I said, comes across as soulless and like it was written by a high schooler that doesn't care.

[Free Bird]

He's obviously smart and good at what he does, but his personal bias (and what he wants out of politics: a rural, dumb, poor GOP vs. a cosmopolitan, educated Democratic Party ... which we all know is painfully simplistic) drips from his writing.  Unfortunately, he's smart enough to "back it up" and not be obvious, but it's annoying.

I think he's gotten a lot less overtly partisan over the years.  If you think he's like that now, take a look at what he was like before he worked for either ESPN or NYTimes, way back when FiveThirtyEight was its own website.  

Link me to one. I'd like to see the comparison