FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver added a dose of perspective to the disastrous rollout of the Iowa caucus results late Monday night, noting that — if the snail’s pace of the results’ release remains the same — voters will not know who won Iowa until after New Hampshire’s February 11 primary.
Because there is no appeasing the left, as of this writing, #CancelNYT is still trending on Twitter with people still threatening to cancel their new York Times subscription or bragging that they already have.
FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver claimed that racism and sexism are why 29-year-old Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drives “certain Republicans crazy.”
Data analysis pioneer and political prognosticator Nate Silver predicts that Republicans only have a slim chance of maintaining their majority in the House of Representatives when the votes are counted in two weeks.
ESPN is sending its political/sports site FiveThirtyEight over to the ABC News, perhaps to blunt criticism that ESPN is too political.
New York Times readers are deserting in droves in protest that its new columnist, Bret Stephens, thinks incorrect thoughts about man-made global warming.
During the weeks before the final day of the campaign, both the Clinton camp and the media attacked Donald Trump for refusing to say he would automatically accept the outcome of the vote on Election Day. But now Clinton’s campaign
Two days after Barack Obama’s reelection, ESPN compared me to Nate Silver due to Value Add Basketball. And after the next presidential election consumed me, Breitbart Sports unveils v4.0 and the top 10 players in the early going.
Many 2016 polls may prove incorrect because so many Americans are undecided or else say they are backing third parties, says Nate Silver, founder of the “data journalism” site fivethirtyeight.com.“Undecideds are MUCH higher than normal,” Silver said in a Tuesday morning
Nate Silver is cautioning people to be ready for a major failure by the pollsters in predicting Americans’ last-minute choices.
Between Sunday and Monday, Editor-In-Chief of FiveThirtyEight Nate Silver had both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump winning Florida, putting the race for the state’s electoral votes on a knife’s edge, but with a great show of momentum in recent weeks for Trump and regression for Clinton.
Nate Silver blasted the Huffington Post on Saturday night in response to an article that the site posted accusing him of “changing the results of polls,” The Hill reported.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver said Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was one state away from losing the election. Silver said, “We show a three-point lead nationally for Clinton, 2-1 favorite. The electoral college map is less
Donald Trump is just one state short of the presidency, according to the 6 pm Thursday evening projection by Nate Silver, the left’s favorite polling prognosticator.
The editor of ThinkProgress, the Soros-funded attack dog site, has been caught boasting to a billionaire liberal donor about how a smear campaign by one of his minions helped damage the career of a reputable climate scientist.
Donald Trump’s chance of winning the Nov. 8 election has risen from 26 percent on Sept. 1 to 44 percent by Sept. 20, according to computer simulations conducted by Nate Silver, founder of the fivethirtyeight.com election-tracking site.
Nate Silver writes that it is very common for post-convention bounce to mask the reality of a losing campaign. “John McCain and Sarah Palin did so in 2008, for example, and even Walter Mondale led a couple of polls in 1984. But those bounces do not always turn out to be predictive.”
Donald Trump’s post-convention polling-boost has made him a favorite to win the 2016 election, according to Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com website on Monday.
Despite extraordinary financial investment, a media-driven narrative that his third-place finish in Iowa was a victory, and enthusiastic backing from the beltway punditry class, Marco Rubio cratered in New Hampshire.
Democrats are far ahead of Republicans in self-serving efforts to suppress voting by their political rivals, says a University of California professor.
Senior political writer and analyst for ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight Harry Enten commented on the 2016 Presidential Election during the “FiveThirtyEight” podcast Tuesday, saying GOP front-runner Donald Trump is a only a “show,” which is popular at the beginning, but will eventually “decline” when it
Fivethirtyeight.com founder Nate Silver said that GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson have a “maybe about 5%” chance of winning the nomination on Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360.” Silver put Trump’s and Carson’s chances of winning the
BOSTON—”You can’t be too stupid to play baseball,” according to Moneyball author Michael Lewis, “I was struck by how articulate (NFL and NBA) players were, compared to baseball.”Certainly the most controversial statement of the weekend of talking Value Add Basketball (see top
Over at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, Harry Enten took a look at the science, facts, and numbers surrounding The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and confirmed what Breitbart News has been saying for years: that the elite media way over-hyped Stewart’s influence
As the 2014 midterm election wound to a close, left-wing pundits repeated the error of their conservative rivals in 2012, claiming that the polls forecasting doom were skewed. It turns out that they were right–but in entirely the wrong direction.
AUSTIN, Texas — Statistician and journalist Nate Silver has released his forecasts for the 2014 gubernatorial elections around the country, and the results are less than encouraging for Democrat Wendy Davis’ hopes of being elected Texas’ next Governor. On his
Democrats and the media have been making much of the fact that Democrat Senate candidate Michelle Nunn has a real chance to win Georgia, but the truth is that she has failed to post any kind of lead in 7
On Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week,” Nate Silver of Fivethirtyeight.com said statistically, the Republican Party has strong odds for its chances of taking control of the U.S. Senate following next week’s midterm elections. Partial transcript as follows: STEPHANOPOULOS: You
Last year’s football media meme mated with this year’s to produce pack journalism’s dream child. “It’s more than fair to ask if the NFL’s two most troubling issues, domestic violence and head trauma, are linked,” writes Time‘s Sean Gregory. The
The College Board, under President David Coleman, the “architect” of the Common Core standards, said in a statement last week that it “supports the actions taken by students in Jefferson County, Colo., to protest a school board member’s request to
