ClaimsNate Silver

“However, I’ve voted Democrat for president every year since I was old enough to, except 2012 when I was working for The New York Times and had developed some weird internal logic that I shouldn’t vote in an election that I was forecasting.”

Nate Silver, author of Silver Bulletin 12 September 2023 Not everyone who disagrees with you is a closet right-winger (Silver Bulletin) archived copy

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Nate Silver has voted Democrat for president in every election since he was old enough, except 2012, when he did not vote.

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Private voting history is not publicly recorded.

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Nate Silver, “Nate Silver has voted Democrat for president in every election since he was old enough, except 2012, when he did not vote.” (said 12 September 2023). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_50338b81e5ea, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_50338b81e5ea

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