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Miigwech

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Thu Jun 30, 2016, 07:14 PM Jun 2016

The 270 Project: Try To Predict Who Will Win The Election

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/483687093/the-270-project-try-to-predict-who-will-win-the-election


Donald Trump has staked his brand on winning. "We will have so much winning," he has said in this campaign, "if I get elected, that you may get bored with winning."

But can he win the presidential election? In a country that has changed rapidly demographically, Trump's best shot is to drive up turnout among white voters, especially white men. But how likely is that?

We at NPR Politics wanted a data-driven, quantitative way to answer the fundamental question of whether Trump can win, or if this is Hillary Clinton's race to lose — and give readers the power to test it out themselves. There's perhaps no better way to do that than through demographics. It's by no means a crystal ball, but how we identify is arguably among the best predictors of how we will vote.
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