Welcome back to Beyond the Polls. This week I talk with Michael Prooser and Jeffrey

Skelly of the dynamic new election go-to website, Decision Desketshq.

Let's dive in.

So most of us on election night have developed some viewing or watching habits. Some people watch the network.

Some people watch cable.

A few really down in the weed people follow me on X,

but increasingly people are following Decision Desk HQ.

Well, what is this interesting new upstart?

Here to talk with us about the latest entry into the must

watch election night scene or two people who are intimately involved with the organization

Jeffrey Sully the chief election analyst at DDHQ and Michael Pruser head of data science at

DDHQ gentlemen welcome to be on the polls.

Thanks for having us.

Well, let's start with what is this thing?

What is a decision desk?

Why are you its HQ?

How did this?

What is it?

And how did it come to be?

Well, decision desk HQ, basically the chief organizational goal and sort of how it came about

was trying to do a better, more efficient job of collecting election results on election night.

And the organization was founded, I think about it.

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