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Honeycombe8

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8. Interesting. But looking at the Wash. Dispatch, the EV map creator, it's a right wing site.
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 08:39 AM
Sep 2012

It's not a real EV map prediction. It's a partisan feel-good map. The sites I and others use are non-partisan EV predictor sites. Partisan maps don't mean much. We really want to know the truth, not just feel good.

For one thing, notice that the map gives Romney virtually every swing state, in order to come up with that map. That is not likely to happen. It COULD happen, but EV maps are about what the current data shows is LIKELY to happen.

A quick review of the articles on the right side of the screen, when looking at the Washington Dispatch EV map quickly reveals the partisan nature of that source.
http://washington-dispatch.com/post/2012/09/06/Electoral-College-September-7-Romney-275-Obama-263.aspx

Still, it was interesting. I can look at it in the future. If it ever has a map showing Obama ahead, I'll know for sure it's all over for Romney, if the right wing sites have acknowledged the loss.

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