Tag: Nate Silver

Washington Secrets

Nate Silver: Trump surges from 3% to 48% chance of winning

Paul Bedard · September 21, 2016 1:20 am

The "now cast" model also predicted Trump would beat Hillary in electoral votes — 285 to 252.6 — and that he would win in the popular vote by 45.4 percent to 45.1. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Forecast: Trump wins if vote held today

Becket Adams · July 25, 2016 3:42 pm

Nate Silver says this election cycle "is one of the crazier things we've seen in American politics for a long time. I think it was fair for us to be skeptical early on." (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Nate Silver: Trump has 25 percent chance of winning general election

Daniel Chaitin · May 16, 2016 3:32 am

Washington Secrets

Nate Silver slams ‘dishonest, unethical’ NYT, like a ‘high school lunchroom’

Paul Bedard · May 12, 2016 6:00 pm

Prominent statistician Nate Silver, who runs the FiveThirtyEight website, said Sunday that it's a toss-up right now as to whether Hillary Clinton could secure the presidency in 2016. (Getty Images File)

Statistician Nate Silver: Hillary has 50 percent chance to win White House

Eddie Scarry · April 12, 2015 8:08 pm

Where the polls were wrong — and, maybe, why

Michael Barone · November 17, 2014 10:00 am

In the Internet age, when all sorts of information is being made available instantly, the FEC is incapable of posting very important data on its website within 24 hours of a well-known deadline. (Screengrab)

Beltway Confidential

Federal Election Commission can’t post data on its website in a timely manner

Michael Barone · October 17, 2014 6:36 pm

Nate Silver, founder of the website FiveThirtyEight attends a panel at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival on April 24, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival)

Nate Silver: Republicans have a 60 percent chance of retaking the Senate

Justin Green · August 4, 2014 6:32 pm

Rep. Bruce Braley, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Iowa, was forced to apologize to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and the state's farmers after he was caught on video disparaging the veteran lawmaker. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley apologizes for insulting Chuck Grassley, farmers

Washington Examiner · March 28, 2014 4:00 am

Red Alert Politics

[WATCH] Everyone at Starbucks claims that the coffee Spartacus ordered is theirs

Chris Deaton · November 26, 2013 4:29 pm