In itself, that’s nothing new: Silver’s election forecasts have drawn at least some controversy in every presidential cycle since he started doing them in 2008.

The current anger by the so called left is about how Silver's forecast has shown Trump as the slight favorite to win the election since late August. As of Monday, it still gave him a 59.6 percent chance of victory.

This is largely because of a change in Silver’s own work and public commentary. He rose to prominence by taking aim at innumerate pundits and poll-denying Republicans, but he’s increasingly used his combative social media presence to challenge progressives, Democrats, and public health experts when he feels they are wrong — which, in recent years, has been often.

“I think progressive epistemics have really deteriorated,” Silver said in an interview last week.

Back in 2012, he “naively thought” only conservatives “were quite so capable of being detached from reality,” he said. Put more politely, he went on, many progressives are “unaware of how much the combination of partisan bias and the internet, especially Twitter, infects people’s thinking and makes them insane.”

And that's what I am talking about. 2016 all over.

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