Only one doubter remains: Dylan Byers, the media reporter at Politico, who called asked if Silver was a one-term celebrity and is now clinging to the deafening noise of punditry to combat the unstoppable number wizard.
In the wake of a Vanity Fair piece on President Obama's old girlfriends, Politico has recovered another scandal pulled from the pages of Obama's decades-old autobiography, but much like the Indonesian dog-eating affair, it's a new spin on a piece of info we've known about for a long, long time.
Though it's bit of a wind up ahead of the reporting madness that will be tonight's Super Tuesday primary results, let that not stop was from ogling at the terrible number of caffeinated beverages those reporting on it are drinking.
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