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Nate Silver was born Nathaniel Read Silver in East Lansing, Michigan, to Sally (Thrun), a community activist, and Brian David Silver, a professor of political science at Michigan State University. He is a statistician and writer, who gained national acclaim when he correctly predicted the winning candidate in 49 out of the 50 states in the 2008 U.S. presidential election on his blog, FiveThirtyEight.com. He successfully predicted the winner of all 50 states in the 2012 elections.