Milford Daily News 10/31/20: Wayland native Nathaniel Rakich is elections analyst for renowned FiveThirtyEight. Here is what he says you should know about polling and why he works for FiveThirtyEight. If you want to know who’s going to win the White House on Election Day, a self-described “nerd” who grew up in Wayland may have the answer. Nathaniel Rakich is an elections analyst at FiveThirtyEight, a statistical analysis company owned by ABC News that is best known for predicting the vote outcome in all 50 states in the 2012 presidential election, when President Barack Obama earned a second four-year term by defeating his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Today, Rakich is up to his eyeballs analyzing what could happen on Tuesday, with a nerdy approach.