Nathaniel Rakich

Nathaniel Rakich

Managing Editor, Votebeat

Nathaniel Rakich is Votebeat's Managing Editor. He was previously a senior editor and senior elections analyst at FiveThirtyEight, where he oversaw editorial operations, managed interactive projects, and wrote data-driven analyses of politics and elections. He has also contributed to Inside Elections, the Almanac of American Politics, ABC News, The New Yorker, POLITICO, The Atlantic, and the Boston Globe. In past lives, he wrote about baseball and worked as an editor for Let's Go Travel Guides. He is a graduate of Harvard University.

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