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Steve Kornacki has a new job that lets him keep his old uniform.

MSNBC viewers revere the khaki-and-dress-shirt-clad correspondent’s ability to synthesize reams of polling data that helps them understand the twists and turns of various elections. Just a month ago, Kornacki manipulated a giant touch screen during hours and hours of MSNBC 2020 election coverage — and helped millions of anxious viewers get through one of the most harrowing political events in recent memory.

Now he’s hoping to do the same for football fans.

Kornacki just finished a second week of Sunday duty for NBC Sports, making regular appearances on ”Football Night in America” and the halftime show of ”Sunday Night Football.” He’s not looking at how many votes Trump or Biden may have left in Arizona’s Maricopa County. He’s examining the potential for the Miami Dolphins or Baltimore Ravens to reach the playoffs. “There’s...

With Donald Trump’s path to reelection narrowing, he and his campaign have taken aim at the director of Fox News’ Decision Desk, which called Arizona for Joe Biden on Election Night.

The Trump campaign sent out a press release attacking Arnon Mishkin, who has since made multiple appearances on the air defending the call and declining to retract it.

“Arnon Mishkin, the director of Fox News’ election decision desk, prematurely called Arizona for Joe Biden before hundreds of thousands of ballots had been counted,” the campaign said. “Even left-leaning election analysts like Nate Silver have criticized the decision, but Mishkin is standing by his terrible decision despite and refusing to retract his unjustified call.”

The network is sticking by the call, made at 11:20 Pm Et, even as a new batch of ballots from Maricopa County showed a tightening of the race in an update on Wednesday night.

“Fox News has already called Arizona,...

The permutations and stats have been mind-boggling for hours. Here’s an eye-opening prediction just dropped from high-profile statistician and prognosticator Nate Silver: Joe Biden and Donald Trump are in play to get the top two popular vote totals in U.S. history, surpassing Obama in 2008.

Silver said on Twitter: “It probably works out to Biden getting 52-ish percent of the popular vote on a turnout of 155 million-ish votes, which would be around 80 million. Trump might get say 73-75 million. Likely the top two popular vote totals in U.S. history, both surpassing Obama ’08”.

It probably works out to Biden getting 52-ish percent of the popular vote on a turnout of 155 million-ish votes, which would be around 80 million. Trump might get say 73-75 million. Likely the top two popular vote totals in US history, both surpassing Obama '08.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 4, 2020

Since Silver tweeted, reports are coming...

President Trump was going to make a speech from the White House about the 2020 election, a process so unique and unprecedented that, at well past 2 in the morning eastern time, no news organization could predict who was going to be the winner. Before he got on camera, however, Norah O’Donnell had something to impart to her viewers.

“We at CBS News are not projecting in this presidential race. We will not disenfranchise the millions of voters in those battleground states and the hundreds of thousands in Georgia who also have not had their votes counted,” said O’Donnell, speaking during CBS News coverage of the election well after most viewers normally watch her on “CBS Evening News.” Moments later, as Trump spoke, anchors on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC broke into his comments — during which he falsely claimed he had won the election despite millions of votes left uncounted – – and Savannah Guthrie,...

We all deal with election-related stress in different ways. Some of us are scheduling calls with our therapists. Some of us are buying out shelves of Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food. Some of us have taped a bottle of Chateau Diana to our sweaty paws and started drinking ourselves into a stupor. And some of us — dare I say, the more psychologically well-adjusted among us? — are eroticizing Fivey, the vulpine mascot of Nate Silver’s wonk blog, FiveThirtyEight.

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— Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker) November 3, 2020

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Deep breaths, everyone. We’re in the home stretch of the exhausting 2020 presidential election. As hard as it is to believe, it really is probably almost over. Fingers crossed. And if ABC News is your preferred delivery method for the election results and analysis, then you’ll be happy to know you won’t need to drop a dime to enjoy the network’s coverage.

George Stephanopoulos will be lead anchor on Tuesday night, along with David Muir and Linsey Davis. The ABC News dedicated primetime coverage bloc will start at 7 p.m. Et/4 p.m. Pt and will go into the middle of the night.

And Stephanopoulos, Muir and Davis will be joined by a rather large pile of contributors, including Jonathan Karl, Mary Bruce, Pierre Thomas, Martha Raddatz, Cecilia Vega, Tom Llamas, Terry Moran, Rachel Scott, Trevor Ault, FiveThirtyEight Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver, Matthew Dowd, Dan Abrams, ABC News...

Ice Cube, upon working with the Trump administration ahead of the 2020 presidential race, continues to face criticism. After Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden poked fun at the actor-rapper during the most recent Saturday Night Live cold open, Ice Cube fired back.

“F**ck you SNL…trying to reduce me to greed,” he tweeted on Sunday.

The cold open in question saw Carrey’s VP read Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, updated with a 2020 election twist. Appearing to warn the presidential candidate were Kate McKinnon’s Hilary Clinton and Fivethirtyeight’s Nate Silver (Mikey Day). Later in the sketch, Kenan Thompson and Chris Redd came on to the scene donning red “Make America Great Again” hats as Ice Cube and rapper Lil’ Wayne, respectively.

“Why in the name that is holy would you be voting for Trump?” Carrey asks the actors’ musicians.

“Taxes,” they reply.

“Plus if you got a platinum record,...

Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden read an Election Day retelling of The Raven — and welcomed back Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton, who delivered a dire warning — during Saturday Night Live‘s Halloween cold open, the series’ last pre-Election Day episode.

“Greetings America, it’s a spooky time filled with demons and darkness. Also it’s Halloween. For some Trump voters, it’s the only day they’ll wear a mask,” Carrey’s Biden said.

“Which reminds me, there’s another holiday right around the corner: Election Day. If you’re like most Americans,...

Saturday Night Live‘s Kate McKinnon reprised her role as former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton this weekend to deliver a cautionary Election Day tale to current Trump challenger Joe Biden.

The opening sketch found Jim Carrey’s Biden on hand to read aloud the Edgar Allan Poe classic The Raven. What followed was a heavily revised poem used to address the American electorate a little more than 48 hours before they head to the polls.

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The opener of Saturday Night Live played on Democratic jitters as Jim Carrey returned as Joe Biden to read a “scary” story of possible election outcomes on Tuesday.

“They say I’m eight points ahead. Poll numbers like that can only go wrong once in a blue moon,” Biden says, only to look out the window and see a blue moon. “That’s a little troubling.”

Saturday’s moon was, in fact, blue.

As Biden read an election version of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, he gets a knock on the door and it’s Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon).

The poem then goes like this:

Biden: I said Raven, stop being such a drag, we got this one in the bag. This is what every pundit says from shore to shore.

Clinton: Not Michael Moore. He said voters are being undercounted in the polls. But even if you do...

“Saturday Night Live’s” Oct. 31 episode not only served as the Halloween show, but also as the last show before the 2020 presidential election. So Kate McKinnon reprised her role as Hillary Clinton to warn Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden not to count his chickens before they hatched when it came to expecting a win.

“Even if you do win on Tuesday the election could still be stolen for you,” she said in the sketch, which you can watch above..

“I said come on, no one would dare; I’d be sworn in fair and square. All the votes will be accounted for,” Carrey’s Biden replied.

“Just like Al Gore?” McKinnon’s Clinton asked.

But Carrey’s Biden was undeterred saying the this time it is different because the people know he has a plan — to which McKinnon’s Clinton point out the real advantage is that he is a man.

Today happens to be the very last Saturday before election day 2020, so it’ll come as no surprise that “SNL” kicked off the 5th episode of Season 46 with a cold open full of jokes inspired by the final days of what has to be one of the most stressful elections in recent memory.

But it wasn’t the actual events of the week that was being parodied, it was that insane level of stress. Jim Carrey as Joe Biden read a parody of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” that was turned into a warning about the scary possibility that 2020 could still end up like 2016 — with a Trump victory despite polls — and a popular vote loss — that would in a sane country indicate otherwise.

Unlike previous weeks, Alec Baldwin didn’t return as Donald Trump. Instead, Carrey was joined by Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton, Mikey Day as Nate Silver,...

Washington — The raw numbers are staggering. As of Tuesday afternoon, at least 69 million Americans had already voted in the 2020 election. With six days left until polls close on the night of November 3rd, experts estimate about 40 percent of the votes are already in.

So what does this surge in early voting mean for the final outcome? Are Americans turning out in record numbers — or are they just choosing to vote early? What do the early-vote numbers tell us about the likely final result in key battleground states? What about in states like Georgia,...

The team behind the iconic 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap — Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest — are getting back together for a virtual reunion/fundraiser October 14 to benefit Pennsylvania Democrats. “Every dollar raised goes directly towards ending Trumpism by winning Pennsylvania,” according to the invitation. Reiner announced the reunion Thursday on Twitter.

Announcing today: “This Is Spinal Tap” cast is reuniting to benefit the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania. Join me, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean on Oct.14 for a virtual reunion and help @PADems #TakeItToEleven https://t.co/Fw1FuzA89J

— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) October 2, 2020

Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight referred to Pennsylvania last month as “the single most important state in the 2020 election.”

Hosted by Patton Oswalt, the fictional band’s reunion is being organized by the same team that held the Princess Bride table reading last month that raised $4.25 million to benefit the Wisconsin Democratic party.

The 2020 Democratic National Convention comes to an end on Thursday, after former Vice President Joe Biden officially accepts the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

Biden will also deliver a speech “about his vision for uniting America, to move us forward out of constant chaos and crisis,” according to the DNC. His address comes one day after Sen. Kamala Harris was officially nominated as veep.

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The 2020 Democratic National Convention will make history on Wednesday night when Kamala Harris formally receives the nomination to be the next Vice President of the United States.

Harris is now the third female vice presidential candidate of a major party in U.S. history, following in the footsteps of Sarah Palin (2008) and Geraldine Ferraro (1984). She is also the first Black woman and the first woman of South Asian descent on a major-party ticket for national office.

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Blink and you’ll miss Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

As previously reported, Aoc will have just 60 seconds to deliver a pre-recorded message during Tuesday’s virtual event. Meanwhile, fellow rising star Stacy Abrams is among 16 who have been chosen to deliver the DNC’s keynote address. Additional keynote speakers include Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta of Pennsylvania, Sen. Marlon Kimpson of South Carolina, and Sen. Yvanna Cancela of Nevada.

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All eyes will be on Michelle Obama as she closes out Night 1 of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

The former First Lady gave one of 2016’s most memorable DNC speeches, which included her now-famous motto, “When they go low, we go high.” On Monday, she’ll speak out in support of former Vice President Joe Biden, who served alongside her husband, President Barack Obama, for eight years.

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ABC News announced plans for its coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions, including one hour of primetime coverage on the broadcast network, and more extensive coverage on its streaming site ABC News Live.

The broadcast coverage from 10 Pm to 11 Pm Et each night, led by chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, is in line with recent cycles even though the conventions themselves will be almost all virtual, after Democrats scrapped nearly all events in Milwaukee and Republicans scaled back plans for Charlotte. The Democratic National Convention will start on Aug. 17; the Republican convention begins a week later, on Aug. 24.

Stephanopoulos, who will be in New York, will be joined by World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis.

ABC News coverage will begin at 7 Pm each night and run until 11 Pm Et. Davis will start it at 7 Pm Et on ABC News Live, and Stephanopoulos...

Washington — Back by unpopular demand is the New York Times’ election-night needle. The paper announced Monday it would be rolling out not one but four different needles to project and predict the results of the Iowa caucus.

You probably remember the Times’ needle from the 2016 election. The Times is reviving the needle for Iowa, its reporters explain, because it “gives many readers the piece of information they want more than anything else on election night: It tells them who is on track to win the election.”

No, the piece of...

CNN’s plans for an hourlong special centered around the release of one of the final polls before the Iowa Caucuses hit a snag on Saturday night.

CNN, the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer said that they would not be releasing the poll after a “respondent raised an issue with the way their interview was conducted, which could have compromised the results of the poll,” they said in a statement. Bloomberg News reported that the issue had to do with a poll taker who left Pete Buttigieg’s name off the list of candidates in an interview with at least one voter.

CNN planned a special, Iowa Caucuses: The Final Poll, around the release of the poll, with Chris Cuomo as anchor from Drake University. Instead, the special, which started at 9 p.m. Et, focused on the Iowa caucuses in general.

The poll is hotly anticipated each cycle...

The news anchors and network producers trekking to Iowa this weekend for the Iowa caucuses will be just at the start of what will be a frenetic schedule of impactful breaking news events.

On Sunday is the Super Bowl, which will feature Sean Hannity’s pre-game interview with Trump. On Monday is the caucus. The State of the Union is on Tuesday, followed by the Senate’s final impeachment vote on Wednesday and the ABC News/Wmur-tv/Apple News New Hampshire debate on Friday. The Oscars follow soon after on Feb. 9 — and it’s likely to have some kind of political tinge.

“It is the most intense period I can ever recall in politics,” ABC News’s political director Rick Klein said from Des Moines. “It is uncanny how many things are converging as big storylines at the same time.”

The Iowa caucuses are the official start of voting in the 2020 presidential race,...

Washington — The conventional wisdom that followed the first Democratic presidential debates looked something like this:

Kamala Harris: dominant. Julián Castro: ascendant. Joe Biden: eviscerated.

Harris and Castro were deemed the victors of round one of the DNC Battle Royale 2019. Biden was the clear loser and he knew it: The former vice president waved the white flag onstage in Miami when he cut himself off mid-answer and told the moderators, “My time is up. I’m sorry.”

Yet a month later, the Democratic primary field looks a lot...

Al Franken’s name once again trended on social media Monday thanks to a lengthy profile on the former Minnesota Senator by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker.

The story, which runs more than 12,000 words, features an extensive interview with Franken. The former writer and performer on Saturday Night Live reflects on having to resign from his U.S. Senate seat in December 2017, after several accusations of inappropriate physical contact with women.

Mayer’s own Twitter tease for her story sums up her feelings on the matter: “How @alfranken got railroaded,” she wrote before linking to the piece.

“I don’t think people who have been sexually assaulted, and those kinds of things, want to hear from people who have been #MeToo’d that they’re victims,” Franken, 68, tells Mayer.

Having suffered a deep clinical depression in the aftermath of the case, he recalled that his therapist compared the experience to...

Bloomberg’s Jonathan Bernstein just published a new piece called, “Is Bernie Finished?” Citing Iowa poll numbers that show poor Sanders “essentially in a three person race for second” (he actually is in second, but whatever), its premise is that Bernie now rests “at the fringes of plausibility.” Worse, he could “fail to reach the delegate threshold” in Iowa, Nevada and South Carolina.

Citing poll wizard Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, Bernstein paints a dire picture:

“While Sanders is faring somewhat better nationally, that’s mainly because almost all the other candidates remain unknown to voters.

Sigourney Weaver suited up as Ellen Ripley from Alien for Samantha Bee's Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner TBS special. Weaver hasn't portrayed Ripley on the big screen in quite some time, so it was a shock to see her reprise the iconic character for some political satire. The premise of the pre-recorded sketch is based on the fact that the political divide in the United States has "made living on earth insufferable," which brings Bee to space where she meets up with Ellen Ripley.

Samantha Bee is floating in space, disheveled and clutching a Donald Trump doll, and not willing to come back to Earth to cover the 2020 election. It's here that Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley comes to the rescues with her crew. Upon finding Bee, they believe she is Stephen Colbert, Seth Myers, and Bill Maher. After the Maher comment, Bee bites Ripley and takes off to...

Sigourney Weaver reprised the role of Ripley in an Aliens spoof where Samantha Bee and other prominent journalists shuttle off to outer space to avoid the 2020 election. The prerecorded sketch screened Friday at Bee’s Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

In the sketch, Weaver’s Ripley and her crew are investigating a seemingly abandoned spaceship when they discover Bee clutching a Trump doll, a nod to the Alien sequel character Newt.

“I can’t do it! I can’t handle another presidential election! There are too many candidates,” Bee told Ripley.

Samantha Bee seriously upped the ante at her second Not The White House Correspondents Dinner taping, Friday night.

Two years after hosting her first mock dinner in response to President Donald Trump announcing he would not attend, Bee this time also pounced on the correspondents group, for deciding this year to forgo the traditional comic roasting of Potus. The White House Correspondents’ Association made that call after Michelle Wolf last year succeeded in her goal of burning down the place, for which the Whca issued an apology.

On an enormous screen, Bee displayed what she described as reporting on every single Trump scandal since he was sworn in, each being an example of the valuable work the journalists do. Including his administration’s decision to snatch babies at the border, and “letting Chinese spies wander around Mar-a-Lago.”

“How did they ever crack the Mar-a-Lago WiFi pass?” Bee marveled.

“I’m...

Mayor Pete Buttigieg is capturing the imagination of the country in a way we haven't seen in decades ... and aside from politics, one of the ways he's connecting with voters is through pop culture. The openly gay South Bend Mayor, who is soaring in popularity during the early stages of his 2020 Presidential campaign, came on "TMZ Live" for a lengthy interview, and you really get a sense of what he's all about during our 25-minute conversation.

Other than Special Counsel Robert Mueller, himself, there is probably no one person more familiar with the rationale for charging the president with obstruction of justice than former FBI director James Comey, whose firing directly preceded Mueller’s appointment. It was with some interest then that observers noted Comey’s tweet on Sunday, the day Attorney General William Barr released a four-page letter effectively clearing the president in the nearly two-year Russia probe. It featured the kind of photo that might appear in a calendar of motivational quotes: a lone...

Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick announced Wednesday that he will not run for president in 2020, citing the “cruelty of our elections process.” This was understandable, given that the Bain Capital managing director has a record of helping subprime lenders swindle middle class African Americans. It was odd, though, to see the Boston Globe celebrate Patrick’s decision by telling Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-ma) to join him on the sidelines.

In an editorial published Friday morning , the Globe argued that Warren “has become a divisive figure,” a quality that I thought was inherent to politics.

With so many television options to choose from when it comes to figuring out which network’s news coverage you want to check out for the midterm election results Tuesday night, it can be hard to pick which one you want. Or, maybe, you already know you want to watch ABC News and that’s why you’re here.

ABC News is going all out on the midterm elections results, functionally treating these midterms as if they were a presidential election. And that means you get two different ABC News feeds you can check out: the big six-hour special led by George Stephanopoulos that will be broadcast on ABC on television, and the ABC News Live streaming show which will run all night.

The big show on ABC begins at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt, and will see Stephanopoulos joined by the entire ABC News politics team, including Martha Raddatz and David Muir.

When Beto O’Rourke was little he wanted to be a Beatle when he grew up. Not a musician. Not a rockstar. But very specifically: a member of the biggest, most beloved rock band of all time. He told me that back in May of 2017, about a month and a half after he kicked off his Senate campaign, but I was reminded of it a few weeks ago, in Austin, as 55,000 people chanted his name.

On the outskirts of Auditorium Shores park, where Willie Nelson was headlining a free concert...

Marc Burstein has been covering elections since 1998. Now the ABC News executive is gearing up for what he believes will be an event of seismic proportions.

The 2018 midterm elections on Nov. 6 were always going to be contentious, says Burstein, ABC News senior executive producer of special events, but in the wake of the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Republican and Democratic voters are energized in ways that no one had previously anticipated.

“I think this is absolutely the biggest midterm election in my time — and maybe a generation,” says Burstein. “We are treating this as if it were a presidential election.”

There’s good reason to pull out all the stops. Viewership is likely to be intense, just as it was for the news networks’ coverage of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s September hearing of testimony from then-Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the...

Congressman Ron DeSantis, the morning after winning Florida’s Republican gubernatorial primary, told Fox News that voters shouldn’t “monkey this up” by electing his opponent, Andrew Gillum, who is African-American.

“The last thing we need to do is monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state,” DeSantis said in an interview this morning with anchor Sandra Smith. (See the full video below — the comment in question comes at the 3:30 mark.)

Gillum, whose campaign was backed by Bernie Sanders and mocked by President Donald Trump, opted not to pounce on the comments, at least initially. But other critics, including some Republicans, blasted the comment as a barely concealed attempt to stoke racism in the Republican base.

The Florida Democratic Party did not hesitate. “It’s disgusting that Ron DeSantis is launching his general election campaign with racist dog whistles,...

The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman announced on Sunday that she would be taking a bit of a break from Twitter and with the exception of posting her own stories and breaking news, would not be saying much on the platform.

The paper’s White House correspondent said that the conversation on the platform had become unhelpful to the “discourse.”

“With exception of breaking news and my own stories, taking a break from this platform,” she tweeted. “No reason or prompt other than that it’s not really helping the discourse.”

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With exception of breaking news and my own stories, taking a break from this platform. No reason or prompt other than that it’s not really helping the discourse.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 15, 2018

Haberman’s quasi-renunciation of Twitter mirrors that of her former White House colleague Glenn Thrush,...

Nate Silver’s data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight is changing teams, with ABC News saying it has reached an agreement in principle to acquire the site from its Disney corporate sibling ESPN. No deal terms were announced, but the news comes after published reports earlier this year suggested a sell-off of the site could be in the works.

The idea will be for ABC’s news division to use the site to fortify its political

coverage, adding the site’s noted statistical analysis and data visualization to the mix especially as the 2018 midterms approach. Silver and the FiveThirtyEight staff will become a part of the news division, and the founder and other reporters will appear across ABC News platforms.

Under the agreement, FiveThirtyEight will also continue to provide data-driven sports coverage in conjunction with ABC News and ESPN.

Silver launched the site in 2008 at a political blog that became a regular...

ESPN will eighty-six FiveThirtyEight, the statistics-driven news-and-analysis site led by Nate Silver. But the news outlet will go back to square one at ABC News.

In an unusual transfer of corporate assets, Walt Disney’s ABC News said it would acquire Silver’s much-scrutinized operation from sibling ESPN. Financial terms were not disclosed. FiveThirtyEight is expected to continue providing “data-driven sports coverage” that can be utilized by ESPN.

Silver and the FiveThirtyEight staff will become a part of the news division, and Silver and other FiveThirtyEight reporters will appear regularly across ABC News

“With political news front and center every day and the 2018 midterms on the horizon, Nate Silver and his brilliant team truly enhance what we can offer our audience,” said James Goldston, president of ABC News, in a statement.

ABC will serve as the latest perch for analysis from Silver and his team, which has caught national interest...

ESPN is looking into the possibility of selling FiveThirtyEight, the political analysis website headed up by statistician Nate Silver, a person familiar with the matter tells TheWrap. According to The Big League, which first reported the possible sale, there is “significant interest” from potential buyers in the site, best known for accurate election predictions based on analysis of opinion poll data. ESPN confirmed that it is looking into different options for the future of FiveThirtyEight, but said any talk of a sale is “Premature.” Also Read: CNN Chief Jeff Zucker Says He's Not Leaving for ESPN: 'I Am Staying at CNN' “FiveThirtyEight is...

Election night's Barack Obama victory tweet "four more years" has become the most popular tweet of all time. The photo of the president hugging Michelle Obama was taken months ago in Iowa. Needless to say, Nyt FiveThirtyEight blogger Nate Silver came out smelling sweet after his polling averages proved truly predictive. Since he called almost every race correctly, his new book "The Signal and the Noise has shot up from No. 15 at Amazon to No. 3. among all books. While MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was on point all night--including one brilliant rant against Republican stat-wrangling--abc anchor Diane Sawyer did not fare so well. In case you missed it or want to watch it again, here's the newly re-elected President Obama's victory speech from Chicago late Tuesday. Of his next term in office, the president said: "I've never been more hopeful about our future, about America... What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together.