He just completely misses what everyone liked about him. He handwaves Waltz as unexciting Minnesota Nice, which is not at all what the base was seeing.
Then the Harris campaign sends Waltz into a hole for a month while wandering around with Liz Cheney.
The link isn’t working for me but this doesn’t seem lile a particularly impressive critique of Nate Silver… Him having a reasonable take that was that he’s a fine pick that doesn’t add a bunch (like say, gasp voters outside the base) and that there were likely better picks doesn’t seem to support this “he’s overly political sciency.”
This reads like “I dislike the argument so he’s a bad pundit!” Even though, in the end, Waltz didn’t seem to move the needle and actually became an attack target for the Right for his statements on carrying weapons in war etc.
I’d suggest re-reading the actual article and thinking about what in particular you dislike.
Edit: though if you think a tweet suggesting a three country trade that ends with “France is always into weird shit like that, the UK too” isn’t obviously a joke, I don’t know how much utility there is to this conversation.
That’s not obviously a joke at all, but setting that aside, how about what I noted when Tim Waltz was announced as the VP candidate:
https://midwest.social/post/15399609/11501796
He just completely misses what everyone liked about him. He handwaves Waltz as unexciting Minnesota Nice, which is not at all what the base was seeing.
Then the Harris campaign sends Waltz into a hole for a month while wandering around with Liz Cheney.
The link isn’t working for me but this doesn’t seem lile a particularly impressive critique of Nate Silver… Him having a reasonable take that was that he’s a fine pick that doesn’t add a bunch (like say, gasp voters outside the base) and that there were likely better picks doesn’t seem to support this “he’s overly political sciency.”
This reads like “I dislike the argument so he’s a bad pundit!” Even though, in the end, Waltz didn’t seem to move the needle and actually became an attack target for the Right for his statements on carrying weapons in war etc.
I’d suggest re-reading the actual article and thinking about what in particular you dislike.
Edit: though if you think a tweet suggesting a three country trade that ends with “France is always into weird shit like that, the UK too” isn’t obviously a joke, I don’t know how much utility there is to this conversation.