Live from the Journamalists' Self-Made Gehenna: Nate Silver is wise and correct here. Go interview some swing voters instead. And if you must interview Trump die-hards, let them speak for themselves���as I do not believe the current crop of reporters and reports do: Nate Silver: @natesilver on Twitter: "Part of what bugs me about these stories is that the conclusions seem preordained...
...Polling suggests that enthusiasm among Trump's base has waned to a modest but not unimportant extent, they're tepid on tax & health care bills, etc. That data rarely shows up in these narratives. I have no problem with reporting from the parts of the country where Trump is still popular. I think that can be valuable. But these stories are often used to assert that Trump's popularity is unflinching and unconditional when I'm not sure the evidence supports that...
Published on December 27, 2017 16:20