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Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President by revelation on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:38PM (#12912486)
You're in a bubble. No worries, we all are, I think New York Times had that "Clinton win probability" meter at >90% for many many months. It slipped to >80% or so on election day.

I've come to realize that all their statistics foo is just peddled propaganda in opaque packaging. Utterly worthless.

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Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President by thefalcon on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:21PM (#12915881)
Yeah, I had a lot of faith in that opaque package (more specifically 538's than the NYT, and at least he was "only" giving Clinton a 73% chance) and I'm left wondering why. Even if Nate's model was right and we just landed in the 27% side of things... what good would faith in the model do me in the end?
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