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FiveThirtyEight,sometimes rendered as 538,is a website that focuses on opinion poll analysis,politics,economics,and sports blogging. The website,which takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college,was founded on March 7,2008,as a polling aggregation website with a blog created by analyst Nate Silver. In August 2010,the blog became a licensed feature of The New York Times online and renamed FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus. In July 2013,ESPN acquired FiveThirtyEight,hiring Silver as editor-in-chief and a contributor for ESPN.com; the new publication launched on March 17,2014. Since then,the FiveThirtyEight blog has covered a broad spectrum of subjects including politics,sports,science,economics and popular culture. In 2018,the operations were transferred from ESPN to sister property ABC News.