Nate Silver's Crystal Ball Tells All (For 2016)

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 21, 2015

This segment originally aired live on December 21, 2015. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on January 1, 2016. The unedited audio can be found here.

Nate Silver, statistician and the founder and editor in chief of ESPN's FiveThirtyEight, discusses presidential polling and predictions as well as sports picks for 2016.

Silver spit out some numbers on media coverage: Donald Trump has garnered 55% of the media coverage since July (and lately his polls have gone up, along with his media coverage).

And Hillary Clinton dominates Democratic coverage with 77%.

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