MADISON, Wis. — With less than two weeks before the Nov. 8 midterm election, the founder of polling analysis website FiveThirtyEight held a public talk at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wednesday evening about some of the key issues facing voters.
During the roughly hour-long talk at Memorial Union, Nate Silver also explained how polling data helps provide insight into policy discussions.
“These are some big substantive issues that we are debating in this election,” he said. It’s not like the Virginia governor race where you’re debating critical race theory and obscure issues about teaching in schools, right? Inflation is important, crime is important, the Supreme Court is important, and, of course, democracy is important.”
FiveThirtyEight’s current election forecast shows Republicans are favored to win control of the House of Representatives; the Senate is considered a dead heat. The race for Wisconsin governor is considered a toss-up, and the race between Ron Johnson and Mandela Barnes to represent the state in the U.S. Senate is listed as likely Republican.
Silver first gained national attention in 2008 when he correctly predicted how 49 of the 50 states would vote in the race between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.
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