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The OP said, "Nate Silver correctly predicted every single state" which is mistaken. His model is not designed to make predictions like "50/50" and "49/50" and he never claims to make those predictions, so I honestly don't know what you mean by, 'we can say that somebody "nails" a prediction through both specificity and repetition. Nate had a modest amount of both.'



For every state he listed which direction he thought it would go, and an associated probability.

Every state went the direction that he thought it would go.




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