Nate Silver: Political pundits more delusional than sports fans

Nate Silver took to Redditon Tuesday and invited its denizens to "ask [him] anything." The online Q&A revealed a little of the man behind the "wizard."

Silver admitted he is sometimes tempted by, but wouldn't act on, the desire to use his prediction methods to profit from election betting markets (which are heavily influenced by his predictions):

Tempted, yes, but sometimes resisting temptation is a good thing.