Nate Silver and his used-to-be-brand-new website FiveThirtyEight.com predicted the 2008 election with unprecedented accuracy. Unlike any number of other pollsters, who rely heavily on designating any number of states “toss-up” states, Silver used his model to predict them outright.
He was correct in every case but one oddball with unreliable polling — my home state of Indiana — and the one state he did indicate was literally polling as “too close to call” — Missouri — still has yet to be called, two weeks after the election.
And his success is now being rewarded, as he just inked a two-book deal reportedly worth $700,000 with Penguin Books.
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