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Soccer dominates the sports world once every four years. It’s rarer than a blue moon. Enjoy it while it lasts. If the United States manages to last in the World Cup, the game’s limited time in the limelight may not

As the shocking news last night of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor losing his primary traveled like lightning around Capitol Hill, pretty much everyone was taken by surprise. After all, since the inception of the position of Majority Leader, no

OK then, Nate Silver. Don’t take my advice. Why not go and do something really stupid, like kiss goodbye to integrity, pay Danegeld to your tormenters, and humiliate one of your innocent writers? Oh. No. Wait. You already did. If Silver still

Ever wondered how it would feel to be dropped from a helicopter into a swirling mass of crazed, genetically modified oceanic whitetip sharks in the middle of a USS-Indianapolis-style feeding frenzy? Just ask Nate Silver. He’s been living the nightmare

Last Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight blog editor Nate Silver predicted the Republicans had a 60 percent chance of taking control of the U.S. Senate in the upcoming midterm election. Silver faced criticism from some on the left,

Nate Silver’s predictions for the 2014 midterm elections have made many a fair-weather liberal friend turn on him. The FiveThirtyEight proprietor struck a particularly damning blow against newly-minted critic Paul Krugman in a wry column noting how rapidly Krugman turned

In an appearance on NewsMax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Tuesday, University of Virginia Center for Politics director Larry Sabato dismissed ESPN’s Nate Silver’s projection that the Republican Party had a 60 percent chance of taking control of the

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) blasted statistician Nate Silver for giving Republicans a 60% chance to take back the Senate even though they have been giving Silver’s election projections credibility in order fundraise ahead of the 2014 midterms. On

Statistician Nate Silver believes the Senate is trending toward Republicans.  On ABC’s This Week, Silver projected that Republicans have a 60% chance to win the six seats they need to take back control of the Senate in November. His data

Statistician and ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight editor Nate Silver, known for the accurate political predictions, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” the Republicans have a 60 percent chance of wining the U.S. Senate in 2014 midterms and could possibly pickup as many

One of the great green urban myths is that extreme weather events are on the increase. To prove it, environmentalists like to cite reports by ‘independent’ industry sources such as the big reinsurance company Munich Re, which show that the

New York Magazine’s Benjamin Wallace-Wells thinks America expects too much for Nate Silver and his new FiveThirtyEight site. At least that’s how Wallace-Wells spun what was an overall sense of disappointment with the site’s launch earlier this week: FiveThirtyEight, as

Nate Silver is on the cusp of launching his newly revamped, ESPN-housed FiveThirtyEight. In an interview with New York Magazine, Silver trashes opinion writers as “undisciplined” creators of “a lot of bullshit” that have no place in the future of

In a wide-ranging interview with New York Magazine, Five-Thirty-Eight’s Nate Silver mocked New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as a “hedgehog” who “only knows one thing.” When asked to describe what a hedgehog is, Silver pointed to Friedman specifically and

Another in a growing list of New York Times employees has left the paper. Bill Keller, a columnist and one-time editor of the Old Gray Lady, is leaving the paper for The Marshall Project, a non-profit news group focused on

Weather blogging is the new trend for sites such as Slate, Mashable, and Nate Silver’s new FiveThirtyEight blog. Now, Gawker is looking to jump on the weather blogwagon by hiring a team of weather bloggers. In the last week of

At a conference of the Annual Strategic Data Project (SDP) last year, Common Core “architect” and current president of the “non-profit” College Board, David Coleman, praised the collection of student data via the Common Core State Standards initiative.  Furthermore, he welcomed

“Nearly everyone who gets a lucrative offer will leave. The era of the lifelong Timesman — or lifelong Timeswoman — is over.” That’s what an anonymous former New York Times journalist told HuffPo’s Michael Calderone when asked about the alarming

Nate Silver, The New York Times’ polling guru of 2012 (who has since moved to ESPN), has taken a look at the government shutdown polls (and history) and concluded that things don’t look as bad for the GOP as the

The New York Times has labeled Nate Silver as “disruptive” who didn’t “ever really fit into the Times culture and I think he was aware of that.” This from the New York Times public editor who wrote about Silver’s departure

After announcing that it had officially hired Nate Silver, ESPN announced that it bought his FiveThirtyEight franchise on Monday. The network did not disclose how much it paid for the franchise.  Silver, whose contract with the New York Times expires

Forbes: Nate Silver, the blogger whose unerring predictions made him perhaps the most important political byline at The New York Times during the last presidential election, is leaving the paper to join ESPN. An official announcement is expected later today.

ESPN will reportedly announce next week that it has hired Nate Silver to contribute to Keith Olbermann’s new late-night talk show. The numbers-crunching baseball geek gained national fame when he correctly projected the outcomes of the 2008 and 2012 presidential

Republicans are on the threshold of gaining control of the Senate after the 2014 midterm elections, according to New York Times election prognosticator Nate Silver. After Montana’s Democrat Governor Brian Schweitzer announced on Saturday he would not run for the state’s

Nate Silver, the New York Times‘ political number-cruncher, has earned his bragging rights after schooling conservative pollsters in the 2012 presidential election. However, his attempted “debunking” of one aspect of the IRS scandal is nothing of the sort. There are two claims

In a cogent analysis in the Washington Examiner, Byron York recently delineated exactly why the mantra that the GOP lost the White House because of its failure among Hispanics is a whopper of a lie.  Using an interactive tool created by Nate

The controversy surrounding Karl Rove’s Conservative Victory Project, the new super PAC designed, according to the New York Times, to “recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts who Republican leaders worry

Last week I put myself on the line prior to the Redskins playoff game by stating bluntly that the Seattle Seahawks were the best team in the NFL the second half of the year. After the Seahawks backed up that statement

Did you know that anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist has a 25% higher approval rating than New York Times statistician Nate Silver. More bad news for Silver: he’s trusted by less than half the number of Americans that trust the Gallup

Nate Silver, the New York Times‘ statistical and polling guru, has ripped into Politico, suggesting that they are stupid. Silver said on Bill Simmons’ “BS Report” podcast: What’s remarkable for me is that you had some journalist for Politico who

On Tuesday, Intrade, the Irish based market predictions company, announced that “the report of Intrade’s death was premature.” In a statement posted on its website, the company clarified its Monday announcement that it was closing the accounts of American customers. Although

A review of the turnout model first presented prior to last week’s election still shows the road map for victory in 2016 based on five factors. First let’s look at the model, where 121 boxes represented 242 million American adults.

Quick Note: This post should’ve published yesterday. It’s late because I asked to be the one to write it. Unfortunately, though, I had a family emergency hit on Election Day morning and, after spending 36 hours in a hospital recliner