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2016 Postmortem

Buzz Clik

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9. True. I'll explain

Reply to underpants (Reply #7)

Sat Nov 5, 2016, 04:33 PM

Nov 2016

A handful of states fall within the gray area of "statistical tie." I did not add their electoral votes to the totals.

But, for the sake of completeness:

All states with even a slight lead for a given candidate:
HRC: 322
Trump: 216

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About the latest angst from 538... [View all] Buzz Clik Nov 2016 OP

I respect your analysis more than I do Nate Silver's at this point. StrictlyRockers Nov 2016 #1

I have no idea how he constructs his algorithms, and I am not commenting on them. HOWEVER: Buzz Clik Nov 2016 #4

538 doesn't smell right. Something just doesn't add up for me too. AgadorSparticus Nov 2016 #2

Great analysis! I gave up on 538.com. They're an outlier and not logically making sense. manicraven Nov 2016 #3

maybe old Nate has his finger on the scales dogindia Nov 2016 #5

Nate is more interested these days in clicks to his site redstateblues Nov 2016 #6

ummmm... Buzz Clik Nov 2016 #8

Thank you for your work on this. I do have a question underpants Nov 2016 #7

True. I'll explain Buzz Clik Nov 2016 #9

All right just checking. 246 underpants Nov 2016 #10

I agee with you 100% -- even though I didn't do as in-depth an analysis obamanut2012 Nov 2016 #11