Are elections getting easier to predict? 📊 August 16, 2020

Polarization makes landslides less likely—but small changes are even more important in close contests

If you don’t believe the polls, maybe you would prefer a quantitative analysis of whether ”flotilla boat parades” are predictive of election outcomes. They probably rank somewhere between shark attacks and Halloween costumes. And this is my weekly newsletter.

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