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Call it . . .

anna.

colors your eyes with what's not there
More important than the percent of Republicans and Democrats that have voted already may be the percentage of voters that are men or women. 56% of early voters are women only 43% are men. I think that the difference in the amount of support that Harris has over Trump is 18% among women in Pennsylvania. That combine with the percentage of early voters that are women could easily be death for Trump.



Eagerness to vote can by huge in elections. Women are motivated to vote this time around much more than men. A higher percentage of men are Trump supporters, but it does Trump no good if they sit at home on the couch.

YES. An important point (and fact) that should've been on my list.
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
Call it? The USA should rename itself as the Disunited States of America, and until they truly become the USA, many outside will remain watching in wonder - as to so many torturing and twisting themselves so as to have any proper sense of MAGA. :oops:
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Call it? The USA should rename itself as the Disunited States of America, and until they truly become the USA, many outside will remain watching in wonder - as to so many torturing and twisting themselves so as to have any proper sense of MAGA. :oops:

I think it was the 80s when my dad first told me that the thing you need to remember about the United States to understand it is that it's really two countries that just share a physical space.

At the time, he was talking about the disparity between the rich and the poor, but it seems to me that the advice works in different ways in different eras.

In the segregation era (and beyond), the two countries were divided along racial lines. These days, the divide is political.

... but there's always been some sort of divide. "E Pluribus Unum" is an ideal that was never achieved.
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
That's a pretty good prediction. It does look like Pennsylvania's "blue wall" will finally crumble thanks to people who are just sick and tired of the left and want a better life then the one they are experiencing now.
The facts don't fit your narrative.

Pennsylvania is in a statistical tie. So far, Pennsylvanians support Trump and Harris equally, within the margin of error of the polling.
 

Wirey

Fartist
More important than the percent of Republicans and Democrats that have voted already may be the percentage of voters that are men or women. 56% of early voters are women only 43% are men. I think that the difference in the amount of support that Harris has over Trump is 18% among women in Pennsylvania. That combine with the percentage of early voters that are women could easily be death for Trump.



Eagerness to vote can by huge in elections. Women are motivated to vote this time around much more than men. A higher percentage of men are Trump supporters, but it does Trump no good if they sit at home on the couch.
That adds up to 99%. Hmmmm.......
 

sayak83

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Happy Election Day Eve in America. Here's where you can make your final predictions about the upcoming elections (preferably without much discussion . . . that's been done ad nauseum). Note that this is just a prediction based on all the information I've gathered and reviewed . . . it in no way reflects my hopes.

Presidential Election: Trump 271 electoral vote; Harris 267
If you want to know how I got there, I predict the following in the battleground states: Trump gets NV, AZ, GA, and PA; Harris gets MN, WI, MI, NH, and NC.

Senate: GOP increases it's hold by 5 seats.

House: Flips to Democrat control.
I am expecting Harris to win relatively comfortably surprising the pollsters. Let's see.
 

Debater Slayer

Vipassana
Staff member
Premium Member
I'll set aside what I would prefer to happen and focus only on what I think is more likely to actually happen: I think Trump may win primarily due to winning one or two swing states by an extremely narrow margin. I also think the Democratic Party and some of its supporters have been dangerously overconfident, which reminds me of the 2016 election fiasco. I hope my prediction about this is thoroughly proven wrong.

I don't have any predictions regarding congressional elections.
 

It Aint Necessarily So

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Harris in a landslide. She takes 6 or 7 of the 7 swing states. There may well be a state or two not thought in play for Harris that goes her way. The blue states total 232 electoral votes, and the seven toss-up another 93, so I'm going with Harris 325 or so, Trump about 213.

I see Trump's unpopularity leading to down ticket disappointments for many Republicans, so:

The Democrats retake the House.

The Senate is harder to call, but we may see surprise upsets there in TX (Cruz-R) and FL (Scott-R). Tester has to hold MT and Sherrod OH. MT has abortion issues on their ballot which should help Tester, and Vance (R-OH) and his increasing unpopularity even in OH where he tormented Springfield (Haitians eating pets) may help Sherrod. Borrego should defeat Lake in AZ. I'm predicting that the Democrats narrowly hold the Senate, that that's based more in hope than the other two predictions.
 
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9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Since I was curious about what the wisdom of the crowd would be on this, I took an average of everyone's predictions so far.

A few caveats:

- if you didn't give a number at all, you aren't reflected in the average.

- for people who guessed things like "well over 300" for Harris or that Harris would do "better than Biden," I arbitrarily put these guesses in at 310 for Harris (and a corresponding 228 for Trump).

So on the morning of election day, RF's collective prediction is 292.4 for Harris, 245.6 for Trump.
 
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