I'm not impressed by predicting a president but the state predictions is quite impressive if he got every single one correct. That would be a minor miracle as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah it has only been a few elections and anyone could predict something right over a sample size of 2 (although 2010 he pegged the mid-terms as well)
If ESPN hired him I doubt his content is going to be about elections though, more sports based but not sure what the market will be for that.
I find sabermetrics interesting in baseball, I just don't really find baseball interesting.
One thing about him is his persoanlity is pretty limited (think dork introvert type) so I'm not sure what they can really do with him but will be interested to see...
Little rundown:
Silver has established himself as today’s leading statistician through his innovative analyses of political polling. He first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when he correctly predicted the results of the presidential election in 49 of 50 states, along with all 35 U.S. Senate races. In 2012, FiveThirtyEight predicted the election outcome in all 50 states. FiveThirtyEight has made Nate the public face of statistical analysis and political forecasting.