I lost a bit of my loyalty to Nate Silver after the 2016 election. Yeah, most of the pollsters and poll analysts (Silver is the latter) called it wrong but I somehow expected better of him. But he redeemed himself with this past mid-term election and also with commentaries like this tweet…
And speaking of f'ed up: The Rasmussen Poll is often said to favor Republicans and that's the main one that keeps insisting that Donald Trump's disapproval rating is within a point or two of his approval rating. In the recent election, they projected that the popular vote for the House of Representatives would be one point in favor of the G.O.P. Looks like the correct answer will turn out to be eight points for the Democrats.
Here is Silver's take on whether the election can be called a Blue Wave. He says yes.
Getting back to the heinous crime of using a private e-mail server: Trump supporters won't care about this. They didn't care when it was revealed a few months ago. It's like what David A. Graham said in this article: When your guy does it, it's different from when the other guy does it.