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Farewell to FiveThirtyEight

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FiveThirtyEight changed political coverage for the better. Starting with Nate Silver’s very first post in 2008 about Hillary Clinton’s “electability in purple states,” the site popularized political modeling, election forecasting and data journalism more broadly. “It’s time for us to start making the news a little nerdier,” Silver once said, and that’s what the site did, inspiring a couple generations of journalists and researchers.

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