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born 1978 United States

Nathaniel Read "Nate" Silver (born 13 January, 1978) is an American statistician and writer who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics) and elections (see psephology). He is the founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight and a Special Correspondent for ABC News.

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Also known as: N. R. Silver, N.R. Silver, NR Silver, Nathaniel R. Silver, Nathaniel Read Silver, Nathaniel Silver

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GOP are so all-in on an "all base mobilization, all the time" strategy that people just take for granted it must be smart politics when it's far from obvious that's the case.

At the same time people are social beings, and they behave in herds sometimes.

One of the reasons why I was initially skeptical about Trump is that America has a history of not nominating candidates, and electing candidates, rightly, who are blatantly unfit for office.

I'd say I am somewhere in between being a libertarian and a liberal. So if I were to vote it would be kind of a Gary Johnson versus Mitt Romney decision, I suppose.

Since December 2015, there have 10 incidents that killed 10 or more people. That’s more than there was in 30 years between 1982 and 2011. And five of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern American history have all happened in the last five years.

I've always felt like something of an outsider. I've always had friends, but I've always come from an outside point of view. I think that's important. If you grow up gay, or in a household that's agnostic, when most people are religious, then from the get-go, you are saying that there are things that the majority of society believes that I don't believe.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nate Silver (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.