Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Except this time the polls correctly showed Democrats having a relatitvely good midterm and came very close the correct margin in most key races and a lot of journalists didn't take them at face value and went with the vibes instead. — PolitiTweet.org

If polls keep being wrong or misleading, maybe journalists should stop lavishing 90% of their political coverage on… https://t.co/TrUF7tEctz

Posted Nov. 9, 2022

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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

Posted Nov. 9, 2022

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

The polls-only ("Lite") version of our forecast projected 50 Dem Senate seats and 229 GOP House seats. We'll probably end up at 50 +/- 1 Dem Senate seats and 222 +/- 5 GOP House seats. Pretty good! https://t.co/ImBoBkHf3b — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 9, 2022