Here's what I think
TB's research skills are no substitute for politics and elections. What makes you think you have a monopoly on reason and facts? You're supposed to try and persuade people with your research, not dictate to them, and some of them are just not going to buy it. After all, the Communists declare Marxism to be "scientific", and Das Kapital is backed up by thousands of footnotes and decades of research.
You just don't get it, do you?