Tag Archives: Nate Silver

Nate Silver: Budget Politics in the Doldrums

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Monotreme

Those of you who have been missing Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight columns since the New York Times went behind a (partial) paywall might want to spend one of your 20 “free” ganders at his latest column, “Budget Politics in the Doldrums.” With … Continue reading →

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Help the Kyl-less

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Monotreme

Over at the original 538 blog, Nate Silver has just posted up an article on the contenders for the seat now held by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ). Sen. Kyl announced his decision to not seek re-election today. Read Nate’s article, … Continue reading →

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America Held Hostage: Day 685

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Mr. Universe

Playing the Hand You Were Dealt Breaking news update: Tax cut deal close to being done. It will be a two year extension of all tax cuts. Democrats in return for giving in on this got a 13 month extension on … Continue reading →

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The Worst Person in the World?

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Michael Weiss

Nancy Pelosi has the highest unfavorable ratings of key politicians, according to a new Nate Silver article. This really doesn’t come as a surprise to me, nor does it surprise Jonathan Allen and John Harris over at Politico. I have … Continue reading →

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Run, Sarah, Run!

Posted on November 13, 2010 by filistro

Nate Silver Is a genius. Two years ago, Nate began to predict that Sarah Palin would run for president in 2012, or at least seek the nomination. In fact I believe he placed a bet with a colleague to that effect… something involving a steak … Continue reading →

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Post Mortem

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Mr. Universe

I’ve actually had a good night’s sleep after the November 2010 midterms. I’d like to thank everyone for participating. It was fun. I learned how to Skype. The election went pretty much as expected. Nate was spot on. His model was … Continue reading →

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A House Divided

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Mr. Universe

Nate’s forecasts remain remarkably consistent with one exception. He is now predicting a 50 seat gain for Republicans in the House instead of 48 that has been the general consensus. I don’t think this means agreat deal in the grand … Continue reading →

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Nate Silver’s Tie

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Mr. Universe

I don’t know if you saw this web extra, but Nate was on Rachel’s show and apparently he had to buy a tie at the last minute. Well the tie was so ugly that they had to remove it right … Continue reading →

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Where You Sit Depends on Where You Stand

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Monotreme

Nate has updated all three of his forecasts (Senate, House, Governor) in the last three days. The quick scorecard is as follows:   Senate 52 D, 48 R House 204D, 230R Governor 19D, 30R, 1I* *technically, of the five independent … Continue reading →

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Can You Poll Me Now?

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Mr. Universe

Nate recently addressed the topic of polling and cell phone proliferation last week. I’ve been poking around to see if I could find anything substantive to add to the discussion. So far I haven’t found much. Nate correctly points out … Continue reading →

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