Political Junk Food: Why Pundits Will Survive the Moneyball Election

This year's election already seems to have a name, and that's the Moneyball election. In short, people are saying that "call-it-by-the-gut" pundits like Joe Scarbough were shamed by the nerdy quant-jock-turned-celebrity Nate Silver. While this is true and I have no doubt that saber metric approaches will result in even greater predictive exactness in politics than it has in baseball (after all, voting precincts and popular sentiment don't throw out elbows nearly as much as pitching p...