The Conventional Wisdom

The Mediaite site reports the following:

Nate Silver, the former New York Times statistician wunderkind who successfully predicted every state in the 2012 election and became something of an anti-anxiety pill for worried Democrats, now predicts that the GOP has a roughly 60% (chance) of retaking the Senate in the 2014 midterms.

He said his best prediction saw the GOP taking six seats, the exact number they’d need to have a one-vote majority.

The comment came in an interview on ABC News' This Week show yesterday.