Nate Silver's Crystal Ball Tells All (For 2016)
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%.
"Trump has some weird chinks in his armor in terms of his conception of the world," says @NateSilver538, specifically of his Putin praises.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 21, 2015
Odd: @BrianLehrer and @natesilver538 can't stop talking about Trump as they ask why all the Trump talk re: 2016 Prez race
— Chriss Williams (@profchriss) December 21, 2015
Touché, Chriss. https://t.co/8zUlibKTiP
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 21, 2015
Okay, switching gears to sports: @NateSilver538 explains why @nyknicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis is "a freak" -- https://t.co/9t9mUH8gyV
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 21, 2015
