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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

What top election forecasters are predicting for Tuesday

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

Government, Politics, News

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Top election forecasters Lakshya Jain (Split Ticket) and Logan Phillips (Race to the White House) join Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels to give their key insights and predictions for Tuesday. They discuss how to analyze early voting returns, who the remaining swing voters are, and why polls are more useful than most people give them credit for. Stay until the end, where they each share what one race that will be called early on Election Night that will signal to them who the next president is going to be. Eugene Daniels is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO. Lakshya Jain is CEO and co-founder of Split Ticket. Logan Phillips is founder of Race to the White House. Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO audio.  Alex Keeney is a senior producer for POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:22.5

and technological innovation that we see in infrastructure right now. Subscribe to the bid wherever

0:28.5

you get your podcasts. We know all you want to hear about is whether Trump or Harris is going to win on

0:36.2

Tuesday. You're tired of being

0:38.1

told it's 50-50. You're sick of all the noise about early votes, polling numbers, the vibes.

0:44.6

You just want to know whether your guy or gal is going to win. So we got some service journalism

0:49.2

for you. Joining the show today are two of the world's top election forecasters who are going to give it to you straight, no chaser, and I also tell you it's really close.

1:00.1

Joining from the San Francisco Bay Area is Luxia Jane, co-founder of Split Ticket.

1:04.9

It's always easy to jump to conclusions about something, but none of us are as good at this as we think we are.

1:11.5

And that goes for modelers, observers, and people who work on campaigns.

1:16.2

And from D.C., Logan Phillips, founder of race to the White House.

1:21.0

So polls are still going to be one of the most useful measures we have.

1:24.1

And if you plug them into election forecasts like I run and like lecture runs,

1:30.2

we can get a good sense of the probability both candidates have of winning and the chance of an upset.

1:32.6

These two young forecasters have amassed a record that has challenged the king, Nate Silver,

1:38.1

and many times surpassed him.

1:40.5

They and their models have brought new techniques and new generations into the forecasting

1:45.5

marketplace.

1:47.1

Today they are going to give you the key findings from their 2024 models.

1:51.3

We discussed how to read all the breathless reporting about Trump and Harris's share of

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