Really starting to dislike Nate Silver.
He literally wouldn't have a job without accurate pollsters like PPP.
Really? He was a poll aggregator- the absence of one pollster, no matter how good, would not have prevented him from doing what he's doing. I remember him getting started as "poblano" at Daily Kos. If anything he owes his chance of getting noticed more to Markos Moulitsas. Andrew Gelman also seemed to give his work an official imprimatur.
I agree that, from a structural standpoint (as opposed to that of one firm) people like him need quality, public pollsters, and no one is going to pay for this stuff in the future as news companies collapse. But that's a larger issue.
