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by showerst 4964 days ago
It's worth adding that Nate is on the record as saying he'd have voted for either Romney or Gary Johnson, if he would have voted.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/150042

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Okay, I found the reference someone cited as "Nate Silver openly rooting for Obama". It's from March 2008, before he joined the NYTimes:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008_02_24_archive.html

I'm skeptical that that statement should be taken at face value. Nate Silver isn't the smoothest in in-person interviews.
That's weird - I thought I read that he was personally pulling for Obama somewhere on 538. I'll go look for that.
Here he says: "I would describe myself as being somewhere between a liberal and a Libertarian."

http://m.npr.org/news/Books/162594751