Predicting Elections
Nate Silver discusses the challenges of using empirical models to predict presidential elections and suggests that analyzing congressional races may provide better insights due to larger independent samples. However, he acknowledges the significant polling errors in recent Senate races and the need to address the issue of errors consistently favoring one party.In this clip
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