via HuffPo Election Dashboard.
Dems seem to be capitalizing on it. Nate Silver, who’s faced down a lot of flack the past week, defends such forecasting:
Saying “wait for more data” sort of misses the point. What about the data that we have on hand already? Is it compelling enough to suggest that there has been some change in condition of the race? Or isn’t it?
That’s really the central question that we seek to answer with our forecast models. On some days, the trend is a little more obvious than on others. But we make forecasts when it is easy to do so, and we make forecasts when it’s hard.
