Our election model for the french election this april is similar to our previous election models because the model is based on poles. Our lead poling gooroo morris has been deep in the numbers for the forecasting tool the economist unveiled yesterday. We couldn't find anything else that's as reliable a predictor as the poles. So we can quanify how accurate they've been on any day of historical campaigns. And what have the ten million simulations so far? Yes, so in these ten million foe elections of sorts, as it stands to day, we have Emmanuel mcron winning about 79%. No there's a probability roughly one and five percent that he's not going to win, according
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