Who’s winning POTUS? Will it be called on election night or drawn out? Congress? Etc

  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Everyone worth less than 8 figures will lose.

    Little else will change. Regardless of figurehead.

  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    2016 2: electric boogaloo. Harris loses PA and MI due to campaigning on continued genocide, leaving her with a popular vote victory but electoral college loss.

    That’s what I’d bet on if I were a betting man.

    • Zacpod@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Well that’s disheartening. Can’t believe that many people prefer a racist con man to a competent woman.

        • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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          1 month ago

          I wouldn’t rely on them for predictions, but I do think they can be a reasonable proxy for people’s beliefs and/or assumptions. And I would say they at least loosely track the truth…

          NBA betting is not perfectly predictive, but there’s a reason the Celtics are at the top and the Pistons are at the bottom.

        • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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          1 month ago

          This page has some background, but historically they’ve always beat polling and any other prediction algorithms as long as they’ve been around.

    • latenightnoir@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      As a non-American, this. And I honestly don’t understand why so many people in our neck of the woods aren’t more concerned about this. You guys are such a heavy hitter from a socio-economical standpoint, that anything which goes down in your country will inevitably affect everyone else.

  • ultranaut@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Impossible to say but Harris is winning the popular vote for sure. I think however it goes there’s going to be some chaos and violence, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s blatant attempts by MAGA cultists to sabotage what they can and drag out the vote counting and electoral processes. Its probably going to be a shitshow, and possibly a horrorshow. I don’t expect it to be called on election night unless its a significant and obvious win, which currently seems very unlikely. I would be less surprised if there was a terrorist attack on election night than a clear and obvious conclusion to the election.

    Congress I think Dems are likely to outperform, the RNC is no longer what it was and doesn’t have the ground game they used to. All their money and resources have been sucked into the black hole of Trumps campaign.

  • lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world
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    We won’t have a clear winner. No matter which candidate “wins”, there will be widespread allegations of voter fraud. There will be protests. Biden will declare a national emergency. What happens after that? I don’t know. But I am prepared for major social unrest.

    A large number of people from both major parties are absolutely unwilling to accept a win by the opposing candidate. I’ve never seen the country so divided.

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      1 month ago

      I hope you are right about the left not accepting a Trump win. I don’t even know why he’s a legitimate candidate with the whole insurrection thing. Openly gaming the election? Felonies? I don’t think the US can survive four more years of this guy, so I think the time for passively accepting his shenanigans is over.

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    Trump seems to always exceed expectations, so I fear he will almost certainly win unless a health condition forces him out of the race.

    However, I have consistently under estimated Harris, so maybe I’ll be wrong yet again and she will be the one to overperform…

    • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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      Trump outperformed polling in both of the last elections, and the polls are much closer now, so if he even just outperforms the same amount as before he wins.

      I think the polls have tried to correct for this, and I also believe Kamala has huge and sophisticated ground game operation aimed at turnout while Trump’s team seems completely disorganized. So I wonder if that advantage in operational sophistication counts for anything.

  • piyuv@lemmy.world
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    My rational side wants to see Harris win, but the anarchist in me wants to see Trump win, just to see what would happen. Not living in the US, obviously.

    Trump winning could be a disaster for the whole world since US is such a major player in basically everything, but my anarchist side does not listen.

    • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
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      They’ll both be disasters for the USA.

      Trump will be a disaster because millions of Americans who are currently on the brink of poverty will sink into poverty under his policies, amplifying all kinds of social problems and civil unrest.

      Harris will be a disaster because she will escalate unpopular military conflicts, overextending the military, further lessening the prestige of the US, and encouraging countries to de-dollarize.

      The next four years are going to be rough. There’s no avoiding it.

  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I think we’ll have a Dem trifecta after election night. I feel the even the nonpartisan polls have overcorrected in favor of Republicans after 2016, and since the overturning of Roe, polls have been underestimating Dem candidates.