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All hope for Democrats is not lost just yet, according to prominent statistician Nate Silver, who wrote a week after the 2024 elections that the moment feels reminiscent of the party’s mood in the aftermath of the 2004 election, and suggested that a Democratic Party comeback could be on the way. “Something you probably weren’t expecting from me … a little bit of optimism for Democrats about 2026,” Silver wrote on X on Tuesday afternoon. He wrote in an article Tuesday, “It’s hard not to see the parallels between Bush’s win in 2004 and Donald Trump’s last week,” adding that this year’s electio…