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Nate Silver

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?

30 minutes

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Tue 7 May 2013 20:30GMT

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Presenter Zeinab Badawi

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