Wait, forced by law? It’s not just an issue of maintaining a warranty?
Wesley Clark is right. Left wingers I know like to point to the rise of “wrong track” polling numbers in the years leading up to the 2016 election. They insist this is about Wall Street, income inequality, etc. Then I point out to them that those numbers were much more positive for black people. They can never explain this, although some are honest enough to admit the numbers surprise them.
It is — or was — an issue of law because repairing equipment requires circumventing measures in place to prevent tampering, similar to how jailbreaking locked smartphones arguably violated copyright. I believe both jailbreaking phones and hacking farm equipment have come out in the wash as legal, though.
Mea culpa. Though there is more than a minute of talk before the TYT or CNN poll is even mentioned. AND, literally speaking you could have been clearer, e.g. with a sterner admonition in boldface. 
Or you could have written: “As Nate Silver points out in his latest podcast, the CNN poll was weighted to cover age groups equally and TYT erred in being confused by CNN’s conservative decision to write ‘N/A’ in some of the small-sample subtabs.”
I did listen to the first 20 minutes or so. I agree with the woman who accused leftists of sometimes rejecting empirical fact, much as right-wingers do.
We cool. I’m glad you checked it out. It’s a good podcast, one of my favorites.