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Democratic nominee for president Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters at the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers Hall on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP)
June 30, 2016, 5:18 am
Statistics wiz Nate Silver gives Clinton 80% chance of winning presidency
Editor of popular FiveThirtyEight blog says polling and demographics data shows Donald Trump to be clear underdog
By TOI staff
Then-US president Barack Obama (right), accompanied by then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, September 12, 2012. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
June 29, 2016, 11:05 pm
Obama to campaign with Clinton, as Trump shrinks gap
National poll shows presumptive Democratic nominee with slight lead, but analyst Nate Silver notes she is ahead in all swing states
By Michael Mathes
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on April 6, 2016 in Bethpage, New York, ahead of the state's April 15 primary. (Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images/AFP)
April 9, 2016, 12:25 pm
After primaries, a bleak election landscape for Trump
Republicans are inching toward their nightmare scenario — a candidate with an unfavorability rating so high that he loses in a landslide
By Michael Mathes
Nate Silver speaking at the ABC Leadership Breakfast panel in New York City, Sept. 28, 2015. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for AWXII/via JTA)
January 6, 2016, 1:53 am
Nate Silver: Trump more likely nominee than Sanders
But, says Jewish statistician who correctly predicted all 50 states in 2012 race, Trump’s chances in Republican primary are ‘maybe 10 percent’
By JTA
Yonatan Gordon
March 30, 2014, 5:23 pm
Yonatan Gordon
Ezra Klein and the permanency of the impermanent web
For journalism, the web is endless so, ‘There’s space to tell people both what happened today and what happened that led to today’
People watch early election results displayed on a utility lift suspended from the front of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center New York, Tuesday, Nov. 6 (photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)
From the WebNovember 8, 2012, 9:28 am
With sterling call, Nate Silver defines new wave in polling
Reuters: Statistician who correctly predicted the election results across all states is poster child of data-driven approach to political surveys
October 11, 2012, 8:58 am
In VP debate, both sides will gun to scare their supporters, not enlighten them
With turnout in swing states now the name of the game, Biden and Ryan will seek to push voters to the polls via fear of the opposition and enthusiasm for their presidential picks
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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