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Nate Silver Thinks the Midterm Elections Will Be Boring

August 8, 2013 · 2:50 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Nate Silver said he doesn’t expect to write much about elections over the next few years because they won’t be very compelling, Deadspin reports.

Said Silver: “You look at where the news cycle is going and I’m kind of aware that 2016, I think, will be fascinating, but I’ll be frank. I think 2014 midterm will be dull as compared to other most recent elections. There’s not much at stake where we know that GOP’s gonna control one branch of Congress–almost for sure–and we know Obama’s in the White House through 2016, so you don’t have really control of all of DC at stake and that makes it less compelling.”

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