Nate Silver Now Responsible for 20% of New York Times Traffic

If you've been anxiously hitting the refresh button on Nate Silver's election statistics blog, fivethirtyeight.com, you're not alone.

Fivethirtyeight, owned by the New York Times since 2010, collects all polls and aggregates them in an algorithm that accounts for their historical accuracy. An electoral vote estimate, and the probability of each candidate winning, is offered. Famously, Silver's model predicted 49 out of 50 states in 2008, and everything but the exact number of GOP seats in the House (for which there were few polls) in 2010.

As noted by the New Republic, Silver's traffic has been climbing precipitously -- and on Monday, the day before the election, it accounted for…
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