NYT and FiveThirtyEight Differ on Senate Prospects
The New York Times unveiled their new post-FiveThirtyEight, data-driven journalism project today, dubbed The Upshot. The site, edited by NYT Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt (aka Not Nate Silver) is supposed to fill the void left by Silver when he teamed up with ESPN to relaunch his own standalone site. And right off the bat, Leonhardt and Co. are diverging from Silver on the biggest prediction made yet this election season –who will control the Senate.
While Silver says that Republicans are a slight favorite to win, The Upshot has that Democrats are more likely than not to keep the upper chamber.
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