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Given that nearly 9 millions votes were cast and they expect only 1 or 2 millions more on election day, reaching 11 millions total.
If the democrats had the advantage during early voting (lots of young people voted, many first time voters. etc..) it will be very hard for Trump to make that up on election day.
for example, say it was 55-45 on early ballots and 9/11 =80 percent already voted then on election day, in order to reach 50% +1 vote, Joe Biden would only need
(0.5-0.8*0.55)/(1-0.8)=27.5 percent to make it above 50 percent and win.
Even with 51/49 early vote , Biden would only need 45 % on election day.
Roughly, each early vote is worth 4 times the nov 3rd vote (if early vote proportion is 80 %).
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I expect 2-3 million more on election day. Trump can not overcome that level of voting. I think Biden will carry TX, but I also think that Hegar will lose to Cornyn. Naturally, I hope I am wrong about the latter prediction.
-Laelth
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)I like your analysis, but the bottom line is the more people vote the more it favors Democrats, period. I dont need all the fancy numbers to tell me that.
Edit - I did recommend your thread.
winstars
(4,220 posts)Gothmog
(145,231 posts)Michael Li used to have the best election law/redistricting blog in Texas but was hired by the Bennan Center. Michael makes the case for 12 million possible votes in Texas which means that no one has any idea what is going to happen
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