"Those who emphasize 'objective' political facts at the expense of 'subjective' values have strained out the soul and significance of politics."

"It is an approach, in the words of G.K. Chesterton, 'that stores the sand and lets the gold go free.'"

Says Michael Gerson, in another one of those Nate-Silver-is-wrong columns.

The problem with the current fashion for polls and statistics is that it changes what it purports to study. Instead of making political analysis more “objective,” it has driven the entire political class — pundits, reporters, campaigns, the public — toward an obsessive emphasis on data and technique. Quantification has also resulted in miniaturization. In politics, unlike physics, you can only measure what matters least.

Is your soul weary of all these polls? Do you somehow know something in your subjective, intuitive guts that is never measured in Mr. Silver's algorithm?