Success makes you less intimidated by things.

If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise