Nate Silver Almost Certainly Has Millions at Stake in Tonight’s Election

Date: Nov 07 2012

Filed under: People, Money and Politics, Election 2012

The other day, Nate Silver proposed a $2,000 bet (for charity) with Joe Scarbrough on the outcome of the election.

But let’s be honest, Silver has WAY more at stake than $2,000 already.

Realistically, he probably has millions at stake.

You see… Silver sees Obama’s odds of winning at around 90%. It is true that 1-10 longshots do come in, and that Nate Silver’s model might technically be “right” in a probabilistic sense, even in that eventuality, but to the average person,…

Nate Silver Almost Certainly Has Millions at Stake in Tonight’s Election originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-11-06T16:37:00Z.

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