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HARDtalk: Nate Silver 

Nate Silver

07/05/2013 GMT

Nate Silver 

BBC World News - HARDtalk, Nate Silver

Zeinab Badawi talks to Nate Silver, an American political astrologer.

Zeinab Badawi talks to Nate Silver, a political astrologer. Has he robbed electoral campaigns of their substance by reducing them to mere statistics and number-crunching? 

Nate Silver is seen as a political astrologer with an uncanny ability to get it right. His prediction of the US presidential election result last year was spot on�when most pundits were saying the race was too close to call. No wonder then that Nate Silver is being credited with re-shaping the art and science of political forecasting. But has he robbed electoral campaigns of their substance by reducing them to mere statistics and number-crunching? 

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