Nate Silver, Founder & President of fivethirtyeight.com speaks onstage at The Signal & The Noise during the 2013 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Austin Convention Center on March 10, 2013

Nate Silver's 2014 Predictions

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 8, 2014

FiveThirtyEight has rolled out its first projections for the midterm elections, giving Republicans a 65.1% chance of taking back the Senate (as of Monday morning). Editor in chief Nate Silver, author of The Signal and the Noise, discusses the projections, and what could move the needle one way or another.

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