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Why is Obama Winning all the Election Simulations?

June 23rd, 2008   ·   21 Comments   ·   Email This Post Email This Post   ·   URI

Many of you have seen our new election simulator.   This tool takes current polling in each state, turns the results into probabilities, and then runs simulated elections based on those probabilities.
Until the middle of last week, the simulator was behaving quite nicely (especially for a site like ours that will get more traffic if the […]

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