528 Gets 86'd at ABC

Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight was once hailed as the future of polling.

ABC News picked up 538 and Nate Silver let the operation a couple of years ago. Now, ABC is shutting it down, laying off about 15 staffers.

Silver posted this to social media media when he heard that ABC was casting 538 aside, "My heart goes out to the people there. They were tremendously hard-working and produced a lot of extremely valuable data and insight for everyone who wants to understand politics better. They deserved much better."

538 was just one of the cuts as nABC tried to shed 6% off their bottom line.