What is the middle name of the pundit who cited Leip's Atlas as a "preferred source for election results"?
Nate Silver Nathaniel Read Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician and writer who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics) and elections (see psephology). He is the editor-in-chief of ESPN's "FiveThirtyEight" and a Special Correspondent for ABC News. Silver first gained public recognition for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold to and then managed for Baseball Prospectus from 2003 to 2009.
David Tell David Tell is an American conservative political journalist. Tell served as a speechwriter in the Reagan presidency, and as an aide to William J. Bennett when he was Secretary of Education. In the presidential election of 1992, Tell was director of The Opposition Research Group for the Republican National Committee, in charge of a massive data base devoted to voter research and opposition research, contributing to the unsuccessful candidacy of incumbent George H.W. Bush against Gov. Bill Clinton. Tell was a co-founder of the Project for the Republican Future, a high-level advocacy group modeled on the Democratic Leadership Council. He later was opinion editor of "The Weekly Standard" magazine, owned by Rupert Murdoch and the News Corporation, from 1995 to 2006.