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10 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Unless my math is wrong, that would add up to a Harris EC win.

As is usual, I can see the election being half a loaf. Trump will lose but it will close enough that he won't go away and the GOP will remain in his thrall. So hopefully the courts have the cajones to put him in jail, or he shuffles off this mortal coil before 2028.

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2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

As is usual, I can see the election being half a loaf. Trump will lose but it will close enough that he won't go away and the GOP will remain in his thrall. So hopefully he shuffles off this mortal coil before 2028.

I would take a narrow win at this point just for this alone - maybe with him off this mortal coil or too old / incapacitated, maybe it gives both parties an opportunity to regroup and move our politics beyond his BS.

If he wins, there'll be none of that.

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1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

We are seeing one of two things: a) the dems are flooding the market with bad data designed to counter the GOP bad data, or b)results are filtering in that says the national polling models have been wrong.

Take your choice until Tues night when you can  cash in or lose your money!  😱

(c) the national polling models are correct and it's going to be a really close election with no clear winner.

(d) the national models are wrong in the same way they were in 2016 and 2020 and Trump is going to win.  

At any rate, MTB flooding the forum with sunshine results for the Democrats does not increase my confidence in Harris winning.  

My default predicton is that Harrs will win a close race bcause Americans can't be that dumb, but they've disappointed me before!

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3 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

(c) the national polling models are correct and it's going to be a really close election with no clear winner.

(d) the national models are wrong in the same way they were in 2016 and 2020 and Trump is going to win.  

At any rate, MTB flooding the forum with sunshine results for the Democrats does not increase my confidence in Harris winning.  

My default predicton is that Harrs will win a close race bcause Americans can't be that dumb, but they've disappointed me before!

This is largely how I feel as well. I think she'll win by a hair with the blue wall states and maybe one other. I think the popular vote will be tighter as well.

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10 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

(d) the national models are wrong in the same way they were in 2016 and 2020 and Trump is going to win.  

Isn't there an (e) option that involves pollsters overcorrecting?

I honestly don't know what is going on, but I do think that people are too dismissive of the idea that pollsters are trying things to increase accuracy from previous elections and that we ultimately won't know whether it works or not until after this thing happens.

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8 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Isn't there an (e) option that involves pollsters overcorrecting?

I honestly don't know what is going on, but I do think that people are too dismissive of the idea that pollsters are trying things to increase accuracy from previous elections and that we ultimately won't know whether it works or not until after this thing happens.

Yes, that is an option, but I thought that was one of Gehringer's choices.  I may have misread it.  

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