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Punditry is analysis of known facts.

Journalists do it through their prism, statisticians do it through theirs (and yes Nate Silver is a statistician and so his assumptions will affect his predictions)

Other journalists perform analysis on secret or private facts. The leaks, off the record briefings of normal political discourse, as well as actual real investigative journalism (both of them who are left)

Pundits who don't get the difference are doomed to be replaced by pundits with a copy of SASS.

Investigative journalism is just doomed.



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