Who’s winning POTUS? Will it be called on election night or drawn out? Congress? Etc

  • Zacpod@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Well that’s disheartening. Can’t believe that many people prefer a racist con man to a competent woman.

      • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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        14 days ago

        I wouldn’t rely on them for predictions, but I do think they can be a reasonable proxy for people’s beliefs and/or assumptions. And I would say they at least loosely track the truth…

        NBA betting is not perfectly predictive, but there’s a reason the Celtics are at the top and the Pistons are at the bottom.

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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        14 days ago

        This page has some background, but historically they’ve always beat polling and any other prediction algorithms as long as they’ve been around.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        14 days ago

        You could keep adding to that.

        People are big mad and think electing a brain-damaged version of Mussolini makes some kind of point.