First, from 23/6 over at the HuffingtonPost.com:
From "The seven wonkiest things you never thought you'd say":
"Because Nate Silver said so!"
He's had complete control over our emotional lives since at least August. Anytime you heard something or read something (Drudge) that made you anxious, you went to fivethirtyeight.com and were instantly reassured. In the Autumn of 2008, Nate Silver was better than Xanax.
This is so true. The last few months of the campaign, whenever I got down and thought the race was slipping away from Barack Obama, I just went over to fivethirtyeight.com and got some cold, hard facts and figures from Nate and his boys, and those numbers were usually reassuring.
And Nate also got a nice profile in the New York Times:
At 9:46 p.m., blogging on his site fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver called the presidential election for Barack Obama. The television networks followed suit about an hour and 15 minutes later after most polls in Western states closed. Of course, Mr. Silver had a head start: he had forecast that Senator Obama would beat Senator John McCain back in March.
I have no doubt that Nate and his big brain will find new topics and interests to keep his site relevant between big elections.
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