Wang is literally the opposite of Nate Silver.
Nate Silver has been excessively aggressive towards Sam Wang ever since Wang predicted 2012 better than he did. While Nate was correctly predicting a GOP midterm victory earlier than Wang was, to call it a "war" is a huge mischaracterization.
Wang was just minding his own business, doing his election forecasting, when Nate suddenly began singling him out, targeting his site and hurling insults at both the PEC model and Sam Wang himself. Wang only responded to Silver publicly only after two weeks had passed and Nate showed no sign of relenting. Nate's arguments ultimately amounted to nothing more than the size of PEC's error bars but he intentionally hyped it into some huge scandal to increase 538 viewership because readers were starting to catch on to the fact that the quality of Nate's work had been in a nosedive since 538 was bought by ESPN
