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NS Nate Silver Nate Silver Statistician and political analyst who founded FiveThirtyEight and served as its editor-in-chief until May 2023.

“True, governor’s races are less correlated with the overall partisan environment than races for Congress, but Charles is a fairly obscure opponent whereas Pingree comes from a locally popular mini-dynasty.”

Silver Bulletin · US Politics · October 2026

“True, governor’s races are less correlated with the overall partisan environment than races for Congress, but Charles is a fairly obscure opponent whereas Pingree comes from a locally popular mini-dynasty.” — Nate Silver on Bobby Charles, Silver Bulletin

Context

Silver was explaining why he expects Pingree to win the Maine governor's race.

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