Jon Walker Debates Nate Silver At Firedoglake Next Monday

[JelloSka]

By: David Dayen Wednesday January 6, 2010
Firedoglake.com

Over the past month, the health care debate has increasingly become a debate on the left over the relative merits of the bill. Most everyone has weighed in on this, often multiple times, with substantive critiques of the reform package and reasons for the urgency of its passage. But until now, the debates have had this odd, cloistered quality, with each side talking to their own specific audiences, and at times employing only parts of the arguments from the other side to make their rebuttals, rather than full engagement.

Until now.

In the service of having this full, substantive discussion in public, with equal participation, I have brokered a debate between Firedoglake’s Jon Walker and 538.com’s Nate Silver. Both have been signature advocates for their positions, with Walker leading the charge of those who object to the Senate bill, and Silver representative of those who support it.

Now they can both be heard, with an unmoderated, 45-minute back-and-forth exchange. This will happen, at least as it stands right now, next Monday, January 11.

Read more: http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/01/06/jon-walker-debates-nate-silver-at-firedoglake-next-monday/

[FLAprogressive]

1. Nate Silver has turned into a whore for the corporate wing of the Democratic party as of late...

...he's pretty much an apologist and little else at this point.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Numbers and statistics are so biased.

[JelloSka]

3. "senate bill opponents are like global warming denialists" doesn't sound like a statistic to me

Sound like an opinionated insult.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Yes, that's an opinionated insult.

And a well deserved one to boot.

I would have added people who didn't believe in the big bang.

[FLAprogressive]

5. that's like 90 percent of his posts so nothing new