I hope people don’t take the forecasts too seriously. You’d rather have an experiment where you record it off from the actual voters, in a sense, but we’ll see. If it gets really weird in 2014, in 2016, then maybe I’ll stop doing it. I don’t want to influence the democratic process in a negative way.

–From Nate Silver, to a Washington University audience, suggested that he might stop writing the FiveThirtyEight blog if it starts to influence election results

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