 In early June he began to cross-post his daily "Today's Polls" updates on "The Plank" in "The New Republic".Also, "Rasmussen Reports" began to use the "FiveThirtyEight.com" poll averages for its own tracking of the 2008 state-by-state races.In 2009 through 2012, Silver appeared as a political analyst on MSNBC, CNN and Bloomberg Television, PBS, NPR, "Democracy Now!