Nate Silver

Ohio is often seen as a key predictor of electoral success for U.S. presidential elections: the state has voted for the winning candidate in 14 out of the last 15 contests, with 2020 as the exception. A recent special election held in the state could indicate the direction of the 2024 U.S. election...

Leading pollster Nate Silver founded FiveThirtyEight, which has been used to predict the outcomes of several presidential elections. While he no longer works for the company, which is owned by Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS), Silver recently shared several takes on the 2024 election. What Happened: With...

As the 2024 presidential election draws nearer, a closely watched presidential forecast has been released, predicting an extremely close result in the hotly contested race. The Forecast: FiveThirtyEight released its 2024 Presidential Election forecast on Tuesday. President Joe Biden and former...

Political statistician Nate Silver joined the ranks of strategists expressing doubt about President Joe Biden‘s re-election bid for the 2024 presidential election. What Happened: In a long Substack newsletter, Silver, the founder of the data-centric platform FiveThirtyEight, contended that if...

President Donald Trump might have drawn headlines away from his domestic troubles with his first state trip abroad, but ongoing investigations into his team’s Russian ties and financial dealings aren’t going away. Which means the steady murmurs of impeachment will likely remain when he...

Renowned statistician Nate Silver predicts Hillary Clinton has 80.3 percent chance to become the American president this fall, while Republican nominee Donald Trump has 19.7 percent chance to win the general election. The forecast is available on Silver's data-journalism website...

FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver recently ranked The Best And Worst Airlines, Airports And Flights for the summer of 2015. Based on government data covering most domestic flights from May 2014 through April 2015, Silver takes a bird’s eye look at the performance of airlines and...

Top Stories Milwaukee Bucks Sold To Hedge Fund Managers For $550 Million The Bucks finished the season with the NBA's worst record (15-67), the team's ninth season in the last 10 years with a sub-.500 record. Enter Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens. Lasry is the chairman and CEO of the Avenue Capital...

Despite a less-than-stellar performance as a revenue generator so far, IBM's (NYSE: IBM) Watson supercomputer is getting significant financial support in an attempt to bring the company’s Jeopardy-winning bundle of wires and chips to a large array of applications. Originally, IBM Chief...

The debate over whether cable and satellite companies should offer TV channels via bundles (as they do now) versus a la carte options has a big player – Disney (NYSE: DIS) owned ESPN, the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports.” According to The New York Times, last year ESPN produced 35,...