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How Our 2022 Forecasts Actually Did

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Is the Model Smart in the Face of Emotion?

The short answer is that it sort of does it, but not enough. The way the model works is like when you cross the border between New York and Pennsylvania, there's nothing special that happens,. But if you have a super strong Democratic incumbent gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin? It doesn't really have much effect on like the numbers that you like.

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