Harry Reid: Let's face it, Nate Silver's predictions are bad most of the time

In an interview with The Washington Post’s sports blog, Sen. Reid said the FiveThirtyEight data guru had consistently been wrong when predicting the fate of Senate Democrats in recent elections.

“He gave me a 16 percent chance of being reelected, he gave Heidi Heitkamp an 8 percent chance of being reelected, he gave Jon Tester a [34] percent chance of being reelected,” Reid said of Silver’s final 2012 forecast.

“So all polls are about like Nate Silver’s predictions: good sometimes, bad most of the time,” he said.