Silver takes off the gloves

This is gutsy. Nate Silver uses a principle about randomization to ACCUSE A POLLSTER OF FORGING POLL DATA. This could turn into a big controversy.

(If you don’t know Nate’s fivethirtyeight.com, they took U.S. Presidential election coverage to a new scientific level last year. And in the end he predicted 49 of 50 states correctly, missing only Indiana by giving it to McCain though Obama was eventually the surprise winner there.)