The historian who picked nearly every winner calls the US election
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🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
For 40 years, Professor Allan Lichtman has honed a near-perfect system for picking the next American president. It was inspired by a Soviet seismologist - but how does he do it? And who is he putting his money on this time?
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Guest: Professor Allan Lichtman, author of Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House.
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| 2:02.0 | This is an unb close race. And so, |
| 2:07.8 | cue the deluge of polls. The opinion polls are perhaps the only way for us to get any kind of insight into what the electorate is thinking. |
| 2:16.0 | At the moment, well, let's believe that Carol Harris has leading Donald Trump by 5 percentage points. |
| 2:21.0 | The latest Fox News polling shows Harris ahead by two points nationally, 50 to 48. |
| 2:26.0 | Those numbers flip though when you look only at battleground states. |
| 2:29.5 | Arizona, Donald Trump up by five points. |
| 2:31.9 | Georgia were characterizing it is no clear |
| 2:33.7 | leader but he's got four points ahead of Kamala Harris and in the great state of |
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