Live from the Journamalists' Self-Made Gehenna: Nate Silver is wise and correct here. Go interview some swing voters instead. And if you must interview Trump die-hards, let them speak for themselves—as I do not believe the current crop of reporters and reports do: Nate Silver: @natesilver on Twitter: "Part of what bugs me about these stories is that the conclusions seem preordained...
...Polling suggests that enthusiasm among Trump's base has waned to a modest but not unimportant extent, they're tepid on tax & health care bills, etc. That data rarely shows up in these narratives. I have no problem with reporting from the parts of the country where Trump is still popular. I think that can be valuable. But these stories are often used to assert that Trump's popularity is unflinching and unconditional when I'm not sure the evidence supports that...
