He's one of Obama's official approved mouthpieces who gets exclusive interviews with Obama himself. He's GE linked Matt Yglesias. Lately, he's been kind of wrong and unhappy. The day before the election Matt said:
The truth, however, is that by almost all accounts Hillary Clinton is leading in the polls and has been leading for essentially the entire campaign. That’s why all major election forecasters say that she is more likely than not to win. So the search for doubt has settled on Nate Silver’s forecast, an outlier among poll aggregators, that pegs Clinton as “only” a 65 percent favorite rather than the 85 percent or more she is favored by in other systems.Underestimating Clinton's support! Notice the tweet down below. Matt makes another prediction!
But even if you buy Silver’s main modeling assumptions (and I largely do), there’s considerable evidence outside the realm of things captured by poll aggregators that leads me to believe that if the polls are wrong, they are more likely to be underestimating Clinton’s support than overstating it.
You can't say Matt Yglesias isn't a good at what he does. Very good.
