Nate Silver

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading & AOC Might Win It All in 2028 · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

polarization and partisanship are very powerful forces that we can't seem to escape from.

Again, I would love, you see a little bit of this in New England, actually, right?

You see like a Charlie Baker or as Phil Scott in Vermont, right?

You see a little bit of like cross-partisanship in New England.

You see even in the South, like Bashir in Kentucky is a moderate but democratic governor.

For some reason, you don't see it as much

in California.

I don't know why.

California has always been the laboratory of weird and eccentric political ideas, but it's become a machine state, maybe because it's so large that voters can't kind of touch the candidates up close and don't have a lot of directly relatable experience.

Maybe California is just kind of too large in general, but I am very concerned about

polarization and partisanship.

I think it leads to lower quality of governance.

I think it's exacerbated by gerrymandering, this gerrymandering kind of war to the bottom.

And Democrats have paid the price where like the triangulation, you pick the least worst nominee.

works perfectly fine in blue states they're going to win the general election um it hasn't given the democrats very effective general election nominees right between um you know i consider like you know they're one of the last four i consider biden to have lost in 2024 but before harris lost instead um you know the one election that did win was during a once in a century pandemic that

Although I have my critiques of liberal handling of COVID was kind of objectively handled.

Well, I know you can talk about Operation Worksheet.

I understand my voters were very unhappy with 2020, the 2020 version of Trump and the greatest economic disruption since the 1930s.

So they kind of won the gimme.

They haven't won the close elections recently, except for Obama, who

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