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Nate Silver @NateSilver538
Getting to 218 is tougher than it looks for Democrats if races are uncorrelated (i.e. just a bunch of independent coin flips). However, they probably *are* correlated. If Democrats beat Upshot projections in California, it gets interesting, for instance. — PolitiTweet.org