Posted on 10/23/2024 6:38:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Election savant Nate Silver has put his marker down and revealed his “gut says” that former President Donald Trump will emerge victorious in the Nov. 5 election, while warning that polling data indicate the race could still go either way.
“In an election where the seven battleground states are all polling within a percentage point or two, 50-50 is the only responsible forecast,” Silver, whose model currently rates the Republican nominee with a 53.1% chance of becoming the 47th president, wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Tuesday.
“Yet when I deliver this unsatisfying news, I inevitably get a question: ‘C’mon, Nate, what’s your gut say?'” Silver went on. “So OK, I’ll tell you. My gut says Donald Trump. And my guess is that it is true for many anxious Democrats.”
Silver, 46, explained that surveys underestimated Trump’s performance in each of the last two elections because of “nonresponse bias” toward the 78-year-old’s supporters.
“It’s not that Trump voters are lying to pollsters; it’s that in 2016 and 2020, pollsters weren’t reaching enough of them,” he wrote.
Silver added that if Trump does defeat Vice President Kamala Harris next month, “there will have been at least one clear sign of it: Democrats no longer have a consistent edge in party identification — about as many people now identify as Republicans.”
Silver added that if Trump does defeat Vice President Kamala Harris next month, “there will have been at least one clear sign of it: Democrats no longer have a consistent edge in party identification — about as many people now identify as Republicans.”
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His models always seems to follow his gut.
My colon tells me Kamala is moving out!
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