Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen: How Political Data Nerds Earned Their Seat at the Table (#68)


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Mar 13 2025 44 mins   51

Tragedy hit the once-marginalized psephological community last week when FiveThirtyEight closed shop. Henry hosts a celebration of life with two of its top contributors, Nathaniel Rakich and Geoffrey Skelley, to discuss the former outfit’s inconceivable achievement of mainstreaming political data journalism. The trio digs into the explosive history of innovative election modeling and explores the...


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