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Nate Silver explains the mapmaking gamble on VICE News

Shane Smith's midterm interview includes Lauren Woodman's guide to who draws congressional districts and which rules constrain them.

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Everyone Is Rigging Election Maps. It Could Backfire. | Nate Silver

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5:38Silver explains how historical polling errors could change the apparent election outlook.
15:30Redistricting can backfire when a wave election makes newly engineered seats vulnerable.
20:00Woodman explains how state rules govern district boundaries, compactness and independent commissions.
27:27A "dummymander" leaves a party with fewer seats than it would have won under its previous map.
49:54Silver stresses that a high-probability forecast still allows for the less likely outcome.

Drawing more favorable election districts sounds like an advantage. Nate Silver's warning to Shane Smith is that spreading your voters across too many seats can leave those seats vulnerable when the national mood shifts.

That possibility anchors VICE News's most watched new upload, "Everyone Is Rigging Election Maps. It Could Backfire. | Nate Silver," which drew roughly 46,000 views in its first 11 hours. Silver calls the backfiring version a "dummymander": a new map that ultimately delivers fewer seats than the old one would have.

The Silver Bulletin founder brings a forecaster's caution to the conversation. He discusses how polling errors could change the Senate outlook and why an outcome assigned a high probability is never guaranteed. Lauren Woodman, president of USAFacts, supplies the institutional explanation: states have different rules for district boundaries, and different bodies responsible for drawing them.

VICE News posted just two uploads this week. The other, "What If the Polls Are Wrong Like 2016? | Nate Silver," pulls that uncertainty into a shorter companion clip. The full interview is also the channel's busiest video right now, while Shane Smith's earlier Timothy Snyder conversation continues attracting viewers and approaches 840,000 views overall.

Across the catalog, VICE News added about 1.5 million views over seven days. Subscribers were unchanged, and its current daily viewing pace is below usual. Nearby in subscriber size, Sky News added subscribers, while MS NOW had a much larger viewing week. For VICE News, the fresh activity centers on Smith asking Silver not just who might win, but how the machinery of forecasting and mapmaking can mislead.

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Channel: VICE News
Subscribers: 9,300,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 1,482,942
Videos published this week: 2
Video published: October 29, 2026
Video views so far: 46,416

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75,536,916

27,806,166

14,861,038

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The Wall Street Journal

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7,957,987

6,698,563

2,288,090

1,482,942

subscribers

9,300,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

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views per day

209,013

typical day: 261,602

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

12,700,000

12,200,000

10,000,000

9,390,000

9,300,000

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7,120,000

6,750,000

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6,720,000

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