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HereSince1628

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15. Silver uses complicated weightings, and one of them is incumbency

Reply to catbyte (Reply #12)

Sat Nov 1, 2014, 06:18 PM

Nov 2014

and another is historic voting patterns...

If GOTV breaks historic patterns those weights turn out to be wrong.

But, it seems many people are more comfortable voting by absentee than in the past...so there is no way to know if early voting = better turn out or if it just shifts voters from election day to earlier...

We'll know Wednesday morning.

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