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So Nate Silver has this new website which will, he says, try to present analysis of data without "advocacy," meaning he ain't gonna try to spin it to promote some political agenda. Whether he will actually accomplish that, of course, will be arguable. It's very difficult these days for anyone in the public discourse to respect a non-partisan who says things they don't want to hear. (As Stephen Colbert has noted, "Facts have a well-known Liberal bias.")

Amazingly, an editor over at New Republic — a publication/website that does exactly what Silver says he's going to try avoid — is offended at the concept.