What Nate Silver’s learned about forecasting elections

This close to an election, who do I want to hear from? Nate Silver, of course.

I sat down with the FiveThirtyEight founder and math wizard to talk about how he builds his forecasting models, what they’re saying about 2018, how big the Democrats’ structural disadvantage in the House and Senate really is, whether there’s a purpose to predicting election outcomes, which campaign reporters he reads, and whether Trump is the favorite for 2020. CONT.

The Ezra Klein Show