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Top pollster Nate Silver makes his FINAL election prediction with just hours until the polls close
The Daily Mail ^ | 11/05/2024 | Jon Raach

Posted on 11/05/2024 10:47:26 AM PST by thegagline

Top pollster Nate Silver has released his long-awaited final prediction of the 2024 election hours before the polls close across the U.S.

And he says it's 'literally closer than a coin flip,' as what could be the closest election in U.S. history comes to a close Tuesday.

After 80,000 model simulations, Silver has Democrat Kamala Harris beating Donald Trump in the majority of match ups.

The race is literally closer than a coin flip: empirically, heads wins 50.5 percent of the time, more than Harris's 50.015 percent,' Silver said on Tuesday morning.

According to his model, Harris won the Electoral College in 50.015% of the simulations compared to Trump's 49.985%. That equates to Harris winning 40,012 simulations to Trump's 39,718.

'When I say the odds in are about as close as you can possibly get to 50/50, I'm not exaggerating,' Silver went on.

*** The nail-biting race is one of the closest in history and is likely to be decided by a couple of thousand votes in smatterings across swing states, as indicated by the pollsters' final prediction.

Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Nevada and Michigan will all be closely watched today as votes trickle in.

Those states are the crucial swing states that will ultimately decide the outcome.

The analysis found that on November 5, Harris led Trump in national polling averages by just one point, up 48.6% to 47.6%.

It also shows that the Republican holds leads across all of the critical swing states except Michigan where he is down 1.2 points and Wisconsin where he is behind by one point. ***

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fivethirtyeight; natesilver; prediction; prognostication
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Fraud, for the win?
1 posted on 11/05/2024 10:47:26 AM PST by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Well civil war it is then.


2 posted on 11/05/2024 10:48:42 AM PST by InsidiousMongo
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To: thegagline

Florida +23% R
Arizona Maricopa election day Rs 40% Ds 20%
Rurals showing up like crazy in PA

This is a wave election


3 posted on 11/05/2024 10:48:49 AM PST by struggle
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To: thegagline

Silver was given his orders, Declare it close and Harris for the win, just more fake news.

He was told to say this so as to not dispirit the libtards voting.


4 posted on 11/05/2024 10:49:03 AM PST by Skwor
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To: thegagline

Crap


5 posted on 11/05/2024 10:49:30 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: thegagline

How accurate was he the last time?


6 posted on 11/05/2024 10:49:39 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: struggle

The pollsters are pretending that early voting never happened.

I hope they don’t drive on highways!


7 posted on 11/05/2024 10:50:58 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: thegagline

Sorry guys. Harris held the momentum all the way through. It would appear to be over.


8 posted on 11/05/2024 10:51:09 AM PST by libertarian66
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To: thegagline

Is this an Electoral College guess or Popular Vote?


9 posted on 11/05/2024 10:51:17 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: cgbg

This is designed to suppress GOP turnout.


10 posted on 11/05/2024 10:51:34 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: thegagline

This is about suppressing the E-day Republican voters in order to deny Trump a mandate by winning the popular vote as well.


11 posted on 11/05/2024 10:51:40 AM PST by bigbob
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To: thegagline

Yeah the fix is in. Now they are using bomb threats instead of pipe breaks.


12 posted on 11/05/2024 10:51:45 AM PST by Revel
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To: Skwor

We shall see. Those of a certain age remember Reagan in 1980. The networks called it for him at just a few minutes past 5:00 PST. Democrat voting collapsed in the western U.S. as a result and Reagan had his landslide


13 posted on 11/05/2024 10:51:50 AM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Silver seemed to think Trump was doing very well only a few days ago. What has changed his mind?


14 posted on 11/05/2024 10:51:51 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: OttawaFreeper
His subsequent models predicted the outcome of the 2012 and 2020 presidential elections with high accuracy. Although he gave Donald Trump, the eventual winner, a 28.6% chance of victory in the 2016 presidential election, this was a higher estimate than any other scientific forecast.
15 posted on 11/05/2024 10:52:43 AM PST by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: thegagline

I have suspected all along that they will install Harris. It turns my stomach, but I firmly believe that’s our fate.

Imagine this: The Dems inserted the very unpopular Harris in place of Biden. The Dem allied media then went to work, recreated Harris as a bright, energetic, popular candidate, who never got a vote cast for her.

It worked! I can only shake my head. I hate Harris, and I hate her stupid supporters.


16 posted on 11/05/2024 10:52:53 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: j.havenfarm

Yep, I lived thru that.


17 posted on 11/05/2024 10:53:13 AM PST by Skwor
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To: MplsSteve

“What has changed his mind?”

The Republicans got a few million more early votes?

Lol.


18 posted on 11/05/2024 10:54:57 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: libertarian66

Well, she may win, but your defeatist post is without basis in fact. After the coup, her numbers shot up, followed by dropping down and purportedly being tied or close to in the key jurisdictions. How is that characterized as “…maintaining her momentum all the way through”?


19 posted on 11/05/2024 10:54:58 AM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MplsSteve

The Deep State


20 posted on 11/05/2024 10:55:23 AM PST by Skwor
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