The liberal critics demand evidence. This is nothing new, and I don’t blame them. I practice journalism, which is evidence-based, and I have been consuming Nate Silver since he was a young baseball writer during the Bush administration. Statistics, factoids, the firm and hard anecdote—I want it all, and may your arguments come girded with tangible reality. I fret the small sample size. I consider, constantly, whether the United States is simply too large to apprehend, a federal republic of fifty nations sewn into one, yawping about like Hundred-Handers who helped Zeus and his Olympian coterie overthrow the Titans. Against all that, why bother? How do you make your way?
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