States Nate Silver, AB’00, correctly predicted in the 2012 presidential election:
50

Percentage of NYTimes.com traffic attributed to Silver’s blog the day before the election:
20

Number of states Silver correctly predicted in the 2008 presidential election:
49

Followers of Silver’s @fivethirtyeight Twitter account as of December 26:
452,972

Amount Silver donated to charity after MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough refused to accept a bet about the outcome of the election:
$1,000

Highest ranking for Silver’s book The Signal and the Noise on Amazon.com:
2