• justhach
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    Kamala Harris Hillary Clinton predicted to win by nearly every major forecaster”

    Its like 2016 never even fucking happened lol

    • @givesomefucks
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      3116 days ago

      She was predicted to win the popular vote…

      And she did.

      Looking at statewide polling and a lot of battleground states were coinflips.

      The problem was anyone mentioning that got screeched at for wanting trump to win…

        • @givesomefucks
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          715 days ago

          I really didn’t think she’d fuck it up this much.

          The last three elections have been like Brewster’s Millions where it’s like the Dem is trying to lose.

      • abff08f4813c
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        She was predicted to win the popular vote…And she did.

        But this article is saying it’s based on the EC,

        Nate Silver’s latest forecast now gives Vice President Kamala Harris a slight edge in the Electoral College
        The model shows Harris securing 271 Electoral College votes to Trump’s 267.

      • snooggums
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        1416 days ago

        YES (no predictions)

        Honestly there should be zero results posted until all votes are counted. Counting as they come in influences later voters, especially in western time zones.

        I thought there was an election in the not too distant past where the news declared a winner before Hawaii even finished voting.

        • SaltySalamander
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          I disagree with the “no predictions” part, but fully 100% agree with not releasing any results until all votes are tallied.

          • snooggums
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            216 days ago

            What would they base predictions on without results?

    • @FlowVoid
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  • PonyOfWar
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    I wouldn’t say giving Harris a 50.4 percent chance of winning is predicting her to win. That’s effectively a coin toss.

    • ohellidk
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      4216 days ago

      yeah, I really hate seeing these types of articles during elections. some will skim past it and go “well, its cool. I don’t need to vote, she got it” and that kind of lazyness is how elections are lost.

      • @WhatAmLemmy
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        That’s the whole point. America’s plutocracy — who own most of the media — want a fascist dictatorship. They’ve been financing and amplifying Trump the entire time.

        What more could a capitalist want than no competition, low/zero taxes, and not having to worry about the risk that democracy represents to their wealth and power…

  • @[email protected]
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    4116 days ago

    Vote. Pressure those around you to vote as well. I had to watch Gore lose, Hillary lose, we can’t keep doing this.

  • @Ellvix
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    16 days ago

    Articles like this are going to make people think they don’t have to vote. Ffs

    • @EndOfLine
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      2116 days ago

      I can’t help but feel like that’s the point.

  • @sudo_shinespark
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    Cool story, bro.

    PLEASE GO VOTE IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY

  • @DirkMcCallahan
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    This is extremely misleading. Most data-driven outlets are open about saying that a 51% chance of a Harris victory is essentially a coin flip.

    And the ones that are based off of gut feelings rather than data? They’re less than useless.

  • @JigglySackles
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    And this shit is exactly why listening to polls is useless.

  • @paddirn
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    1616 days ago

    Until the votes are counted, this doesn’t mean shit.

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    well thank fuck