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Democrats Livid After Nate Silver's GOP Senate Takeover Projection

Democrats Livid After Nate Silver's GOP Senate Takeover Projection

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

Nate Silver: 60% Chance GOP Takes Back Senate

Nate Silver: 60% Chance GOP Takes Back Senate

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

New York Mag: Five-Thirty-Eight Launch Disappoints

New York Mag: Five-Thirty-Eight Launch Disappoints

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 Rips Thomas Friedman: Not Much 'Original Thinking'

Nate Silver Rips Thomas Friedman: Not Much 'Original Thinking'

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

Gawker Hiring Team of Weather Reporters

Gawker Hiring Team of Weather Reporters

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

Rats Leave New York Times Sinking Ship

Rats Leave New York Times Sinking Ship

“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

ESPN Buys FiveThirtyEight Franchise

ESPN Buys FiveThirtyEight Franchise

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

New York Times Loses Nate Silver to ESPN

New York Times Loses Nate Silver to ESPN

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.

Report: ESPN Hires Nate Silver to Contribute to 'Olbermann'

Report: ESPN Hires Nate Silver to Contribute to 'Olbermann'

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

Nate Silver: GOP on Threshold of Taking Back Senate

Nate Silver: GOP on Threshold of Taking Back Senate

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

No, Nate Silver Did Not 'Debunk' IRS Scandal

No, Nate Silver Did Not 'Debunk' IRS Scandal

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

Nate Silver: Rove Super PAC Could Destroy GOP Establishment

Nate Silver: Rove Super PAC Could Destroy GOP Establishment

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

How the Media Punks Readers with Polls

How the Media Punks Readers with Polls

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