Follow-Up-Friday: Nate Silver vs. Sam Wang on Midterm Polling

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 12, 2014

On Monday, Nate Silver was on the show to discuss FiveThirtyEight's midterm forecast, which favors the GOP, and dismissed Sam Wang's forecast heavily favoring Democrats. We follow up with Sam Wang on his model, and what leads different statistical wranglers to come to such different conclusions.

Listen to Monday's conversation with Nate Silver below.

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