“People, understandably, are having trouble believing in the polls,” Nate Silver acknowledged to New York Times columnist Ezra Klein.

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      18 days ago

      He gave Trump 2016 more odds than anyone else, the model probability was 1/3 chance, up to polling issues.

      All Nate Silver’s models did was run a hierarchical Bayesian regression model with polls weighted by demographics and their forecast accuracy on previous elections.