The 2020 Election: Delaying the Inevitable

https://twitter.com/dril/status/841892608788041732?s=19

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Nate Silver is gonna be grinding 4-8 LO8 by the next midterm.

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https://twitter.com/nate_cohn/status/1323944064190947330?s=21

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Counterpoint:: Weā€™re still very live in Georgia.

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he always does that

well it could be good or bad who really knows thanks for reading my tweet and Iā€™m totally worth the sums of money I get paid and thereā€™s no way anyone could do it better, certainly not some random on unstuck who actually did do well overall on his map. nope, not at all

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That means we have to start unstuck polling and unstuck publishing. Put a dent in Nate and put a dent in Mason.

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Maybe the COVID spikes depressed the democratic day of turnout but not the republican day of turnout.

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except I effectively stated harrison had no chance and also was driving the big blue georgia bus on this board? A little part of it was getting too much hype, once it made it a national race then R turnout sprung to life.

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Do these finish line toss ups even matter? With Trump all he needs is a narrative to shamelessly drive this to the illegitimate Supreme Court to appoint him winner. And Biden missed the decisive sweep necessary to block that narrative.

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maybe some big national news happened there. dunno either offhand. MN was the most left of that group though coming in.

WI is more rural of the MN/WI/MI/PA quad. It shouldā€™ve been right of those three, though I guess it kinda ends up close to MI/PA.

Heā€™ll move into some new field thatā€™s just starting up, be the best for the first 1-3 years, then be mediocre for a few years, then be found out to be way behind the curve. Heā€™s an early adapter, but canā€™t stay at the top of anything. Harsh, but true.

When are we supposed to get more Michigan votes?

Also, Green Bay soon?

Lol, I guess we still have to fade Arizona:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1323943597927006210

Peters may well win the Senate race in Michigan, but the Rā€™s absolutely stroked us in the so called competitive races.

fwiw i think 538 is an amazing website from a user engagement standpoint. too bad the data sucks balls.

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Like five minutes ago I was thinking we should start a competitor to 538, but also do Dem messaging content/consulting/whatever.

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Call it unsuck polling

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Wonā€™t be surprised if when I wake up in 3 more hours nobody knows shit and thereā€™s still 10s of millions of ballots still left to count.

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Could also be the same stupid shit as 2016 where people thought we had it in the bag and stayed home? But turnout is going to end up being really high still, so I dunno if thatā€™s it.

So what are the chances we get to 50 seats?