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GD POLITICSElection Eve 2025 Live At The Comedy CellarThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.comThe full episode is available to paid subscribers. Once you become a paid subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player by following the directions here.Happy Election Day! Last night Nate Silver, Clare Malone and I gathered with a sold-out crowd at the Comedy Cellar in New York City to share out final pre-election takes, discuss the latest political controversies and take on audience members in a game of “Guess What Americans Think.”We d...
2025-11-0416 min
GD POLITICSDoes Zohran Mamdani Have A Majority Coalition?Two election week updates to start: First, we have a live show coming up at the Comedy Cellar in New York City with Nate Silver and Clare Malone on election eve, November 3rd. There are a few tickets left, so grab ‘em and join us!Second, I’ll be live-streaming on election night, November 4th, alongside some of your GD POLITICS faves. Think of this as friends having an election watch party that you’re invited to. Assuming we make it to midnight, it will also be my birthday, so don’t be surprised if you see a glass...
2025-10-3044 min
GD POLITICSA Guide To 2025's Statewide ElectionsWe have a live show coming up on November 3rd at the Comedy Cellar in New York City with Nate Silver and Clare Malone. Come join us for a rowdy election eve!We are one week away from Election Day 2025, so this week we’re zooming in on the biggest contests of the year. Today it’s Virginia, New Jersey, and California. Later in the week we’ll take a detailed political tour of New York City’s vastly different neighborhoods.In Virginia, Democrat Abigail Spanberger currently leads Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in the race for Governor...
2025-10-2754 min
GD POLITICSDemocrats' Bid To Unseat Susan Collins Takes ShapeWe have a live show coming up on November 3rd at the Comedy Cellar in New York City with Clare Malone and Nate Silver. Come join us for a rowdy election eve!Maine Democrats have themselves a primary contest between the current governor Janet Mills and former Marine and oyster farmer Graham Platner in their bid to oust Senator Susan Collins next year. On its face, it looks like a battle for the soul of the party, though Platner’s recently resurfaced comments on Reddit could disrupt his momentum.On today’s podcast we take a lo...
2025-10-2154 min
GD POLITICSLive At The Comedy Cellar With Nate Silver And Clare MaloneThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.comWe are currently offering our first-ever discount on paid subscriptions. Right now, an annual subscription is 20% off, meaning you’ll become a paid subscriber for just $5/month. Paid subscribers get access to a second weekly podcast, including the audio and video from live shows like the one above and our upcoming live show on November 3rd.Today’s episode is a live taping of the podcast with Nate Silver and Clare Malone at the Comedy Cellar in New York City...
2025-10-0219 min
GD POLITICSClare Malone On MAHA, Charlie Kirk, And NYC's Mayoral RaceWe have a special guest on the podcast today: former FiveThirtyEight Politics podcaster, staff writer at The New Yorker, and dear friend, Clare Malone.As a reminder Clare, Nate Silver and I will be taping a live show at the Comedy Cellar in New York City on September 29th. Tickets are available here.In this installment of the podcast, Clare and I catch up on some of the latest news in politics and media. We talk about the political and emotional reverberations from Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the strange bedfellows who have found common cause in...
2025-09-151h 03
GD POLITICSNate Silver On LA Protests, NYC's Mayoral Race, And Elon MuskThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.comNate Silver and I went live on Substack Thursday afternoon to sort though some of the messy politics of the moment: There are the immigration raids in Los Angeles and the response from protesters and the Trump administration. There’s a competitive Democratic primary for mayor of New York City. Elon Musk seems to be back in the fold after threatening to …
2025-06-1220 min
GD POLITICSGD POLITICS Live! With Nate Silver, Clare Malone And Harry EntenThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.comOnly paid subscribers have access to the full-length video and audio of the show, so make sure to subscribe!We discussed the search for a new pope, 100 days of Trump, played a game and answered questions from a sold out audience in New York City
2025-04-2426 min
GD POLITICSPreview: 2028 Democratic Primary DraftThis is an audio preview of the full draft, which is available to paid subscribers here.On Wednesday afternoon, Nate Silver and I went live on Substack to host our first ever 2028 Democratic primary draft. We said it was “way-too-early,” but I’m not sure that’s right. The potential candidates themselves certainly don’t seem to think so. Look at just about any ambitious Democrat and it will be clear that they are making moves: doing arena tours, starting podcasts, showcasing their abilities to “get sh*t done.” So we took the opportunity to put our early assumpti...
2025-04-1731 min
GD POLITICSNate Silver Gets Candid On 538 Regrets, Elon Musk, And Democrats' MisstepsNate Silver joins me for a wide ranging and candid interview on the inaugural episode of the GD POLITICS podcast. We talk about what it was like behind the scenes at FiveThirtyEight, Elon Musk’s increasingly erratic behavior, and much more. The video version of the podcast is available to paid subscribers here. Subscribe to GD POLITICS at www.gdpolitics.com and wherever you listen to podcasts! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.gdpolitics.com/subscribe
2025-03-241h 12
FiveThirtyEight PoliticsLive From New York: It's The FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast!The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast held a live taping at The Bell House in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, its first return to a live venue in New York City since the pandemic. Nate Silver and Galen Druke dissect a recent poll suggesting 30 percent of New Yorkers want to leave the state, challenge ChatGPT to see if it can replace their jobs and discuss the current state of the 2024 Republican primary. They also welcome a surprise guest and an audience member to play a round of New York City-themed trivia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...
2023-04-211h 29
DailypodThe Gold Standard For Polling Has Changed Podcast: FiveThirtyEight Politics (LS 78 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: The Gold Standard For Polling Has ChangedPub date: 2021-03-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNate Silver and Galen Druke discuss why live caller surveys are no longer the gold standard in polling and what it means for the future of the industry. They also assess how polls performed in 2019 and 2020 in general, with the benefit of hindsight and updated pollster ratings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...
2021-03-2751 min