Top 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008
10. Nate Silver – Mr. Silver is the founder and major author of the blog FiveThirtyEight.com with 538 standing for the amount of total electoral votes available to candidates in the Presidential race. Silver, a baseball statistician and performance forecaster by trade, developed what turned out to be a dead-on projection of the outcome of the Presidential race, out-predicting most professional pollsters. Throughout the process, Silver gained fame for his analysis, appearing on various political and news outlets on T.V. and print, and has likely changed the game for political election forecasting for many years to come.
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