FiveThirtyEight Predictions--3 Weeks Until First Contest

Submitted by apenultimate on Mon, 01/13/2020 - 11:33pm

Well, a mere 3 weeks until Iowa, DNC establishment tool FiveThirtyEight has some primary/caucus predictions, and you simply *won't believe* what they are predicting!

They have forecast the result of every state and territory in the US of A, and the results are:

Sanders wins: New Hampshire, Vermont, California

Warren wins: Massachusetts

Biden wins: Every other of the 46 states, all 5 territories, Democrats Abroad, and Washington DC

Iowa, where the latest polls show Sanders ahead or at least even? Nope--that'll be Biden. States where Sanders won against Hillary in 2016 (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Washington, Oregon, Oklahoma, Alaska, Maine???)--nope all will go Biden. Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Idaho, North Dakota, and Montana, where Sanders also won in 2016? Those are so Biden states!

Hawaii, where Sanders also won in 2016, not to mention the home state of Tulsi--Biden will win that one for sure.

Did I mention Indiana, West Virginia, Utah, and Rhode Island where Sanders also won 2016? Forget about those--Biden will win 'em all!

American Samoa, where Tulsi is an actual Samoan? Biden, of course.

Virgin Islands--well . . . ummm, actually they probably will vote for Biden (*cough*).

I find it very improbable that Sanders wins California, the largest and most delegate-rich state in the Union, and that doesn't supercharge his campaign into additional wins. FiveThirtyEight does have Biden a very close second in the state--Sanders winning 133 delegates to Biden's 123.

Now, to be fair, they actually do *not* have Biden walking away with enough delegates to win the first round of voting at the convention. A candidate needs 1,990 delegates to win the first round, and FiveThirtyEight actually has Biden and Sanders close in most races, and shows Biden gaining only 1,503 delegates, with Sanders at 1,022 (Warren at 737 and Buttigieg at 506).

Let's see how FiveThirtyEight fares in 2020. I'm thinking they'll be in for some big surprises!

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Submitted by Pricknick on Mon, 01/13/2020 - 11:45pm
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538 is bunk as are most all polls.
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Submitted by mimi on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 12:10am
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@Pricknick

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 12:29am
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I reminded myself that 538 is merely aggregating poll results and collecting averages.

Their particular schtick is to give each poll a credibility weight, based on how representative the polled group is to the voting demographic, bias in the way the question is asked, the track record of the polster, and other variations that might affect the outcome.

Who Will Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination?

It worked out so well the last time. What could possible go wrong? Dirol

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Meanwhile, the visual data for each state are great and easy to understand. It's a link you can keep handy to check out the continuously updated odds unitl election day. I intend to use it.
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Submitted by Cassiodorus on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 12:38am
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@Pluto's Republic Actually predicting the election is completely beyond them. Joe Biden will win all these states despite being in initial-stage dementia, right.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 3:50am
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@Cassiodorus

...with Biden sweeping all the states.

Their real audience and fan base have always been the insider bubble folks. The only thing pre-Iowa polls measure is name recognition from the past. Predictably, the runoffs against Trump are as close to 50-50 as they can get them. They probably should have held off on their debut until reality started to peek through. Or maybe it is a psyop launch. All their projections end up with a brokered convention.

Biden is going to walk a weird path to the finish line. The candidates who haven't dropped out yet should probably stick around. Bloomberg is convinced he can buy the Presidency, and I hope he does. Americans need to see their payola democracy in action.

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Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 6:54am
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@Cassiodorus @Cassiodorus

attain those results...

by the way, there's a lot fewer videos about the 2016 primary election fraud now...you have to wade through acres of Trump Says Voter Fraud! videos to get to one about the *election* fraud (not voter fraud) in the Democratic primaries.

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Submitted by Wally on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 7:03am
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@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

The Nate's liver stuff is par for the course, but . . .

Yea. The banality of evil in those videos.

Anger. Sadness. Outrage. It's Deja Vu all over again.

I was gonna wait 'til all four early primaries and Super Tuesday played out, but I'll donate some more bucks to Bernie tonight during the debate.

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Submitted by boriscleto on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 7:51am
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@Wally

The Nate's liver stuff is par for the course, but . . .
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Submitted by Wally on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 8:30am
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Now that even Morning Joe is ridiculing so much as the suggestion that Bernie would say such a thing especially to Liz Warren ... and Al Sharpton agreed while Mika nods along:

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Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 12:11pm
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Priceless.

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Submitted by Situational Lefty on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 12:50am
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Tulsi Gabbard will resign as co-chair of the Democratic Party to protest the actions of the DNC in favor of Hillary and against Bernie?

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Submitted by mimi on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 1:45am
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Submitted by Shahryar on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 12:59am
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I don't think it'll be close. Warren was strong in mid-summer, not so much now.

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Submitted by Hawkfish on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 9:34am
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@Shahryar

I see lots of Bernie, moderate Warren and some Yang. I don’t think I’ve seen a single Biden sticker.

I also get lots of positive comments when I wear my Bernie shirt - usually from service industry workers, but sometimes just random people on the street.

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Submitted by The Voice In th... on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 1:31am

Residents of Nursing Homes? Or lunch time at Senior Centers?

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 1:41am
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@The Voice In the Wilderness

Who did they poll?

and their parents.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 6:40am
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Not the ones capable of telling the DNC to fuck off.

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Submitted by humphrey on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 2:14am

They (Nate Silver) have jumped the shark.

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Submitted by ovals49 on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 5:29am

of this Nate Silver wishful thinking prediction will be evidence of the demise of democracy in the US more egregious Russian meddling in our elections.

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Submitted by entrepreneur on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 12:45pm

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... Nate Silver wishful thinking prediction ...

Because nowadays much of neoliberal strategy is based on gaslighting voters with their wishful thinking poorly disguised as expert prognostication.

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Submitted by ggersh on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 6:57am
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iow's he's a fact free stenographer

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Submitted by entrepreneur on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 10:06am

for corruption, and it sold out to the DNC 10 milliseconds later.

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Submitted by RantingRooster on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 10:54am
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in business? I mean, everybody, every pundit, major MSM talking head, Dem/DNC surrogate, pollster etc, blabber mouth moron, EVERYBODY (on the dem's side), said Trump couldn't win! But gee, if you are 100% wrong, and still keep your job, the "system" is truly fucked (rigged), no?

America seems to double down on being wrong, like 99.99% of the time.

Of course we have the Yang PAC Founder: The polls are wrong, Andrew Yang can win Iowa. (Really?, I seriously doubt it...)

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#BernieOrBust2020

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Submitted by Mark from Queens on Tue, 01/14/2020 - 12:44pm
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Give me the Chapo boys...

Here's Virgil Texas,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/05/09/our-fictiona...

He went from being a hostage of Russian security forces to predicting the exact results of the Iowa presidential caucuses, right down to the third- and fourth-place finishers. He called Bernie Sanders’s upset win in this past week’s Indiana primary, when his competitors all said Hillary Clinton had it locked down. He has correctly predicted the results of 77 out of 87 races in this year’s primaries, an 89 percent accuracy rating that equals that of FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver while tackling nearly twice as many contests.

And he’s a fictional character.

Carl “The Dig” Diggler is a parody of political pundits written by Felix Biederman and me for CAFE. Carl exists to satirize all that is vacuous, elitist and ridiculous about the media class. From his sycophantic love of candidates in uniform to his hatred of Bernie Bros, from his reverence for “the discourse” to his constant threats of suing the people who troll him on Twitter, Carl is predicated on being myopic, vain and — frankly — wrong.

But something funny happened along the way. Biederman and I, who are neither statisticians nor political scientists, started making educated guesses for our parody about the results of the primaries. And we were right. A lot.

We beat the hacks at their own game by predicting every Democratic winner on Super Tuesday. We told readers who would win in the unpredictable caucuses that FiveThirtyEight didn’t even try to forecast, such as those in Minnesota, Wyoming and even American Samoa. We called 19 out of the past 19 contests. FiveThirtyEight, whose model cannot work without polling, accurately predicted 13.

I'm so sick of that Neoliberal putz Nate Silver. He should have been exposed for all he is in 2016, just another Dem operative who gives the DNC what they need. He's far outlived any gravitas he had in 2008 and gotta be on the payroll, the scab.

Here's another guy who thinks so too:

Why FiveThirtyEight doesn’t beat prediction markets

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