Statistician and founder of FiveThirtyEight. Known for election forecasting and applying data analytics to politics. Author of The Signal and the Noise.
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Nate Silver
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SensibleScience-based
On the issues 2
Public positions Nate Silver has taken on contested policy questions. Each links to the full issue page where this voice sits among others.
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Bio, position statements, and per-vote analysis are editorial work — see ROADMAP M4/M5 for the corpus expansion plan.
editorial · last refreshed 5/26/2026.Bio, position statements, and per-vote analysis are editorial work — see ROADMAP M4/M5 for the corpus expansion plan.