Looks like it’s over for Donnie. Woah.

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      He predicts Harris will win citing 8 keys he uses:

       No primary contest and the party is largely behind her
      
       No sizable third party spoil
      
       In the short term and long term economies are good
      
       Biden made large policy changes like Paris accords, chips act, inflation reduction act
      
       No sustained social unrest
      
       No meaningful white house scandals
      
       Challenger charisma is limited to a narrow base
      

      The points against her are:

       Midterm gains by challengers
      
       Harris isn't the incumbent
      

      With Foreign policy failures and Foreign policy success left unchecked because she passed the majority of the keys.

      With those last two he says “The Biden administration is deeply invested in the war in Gaza. Which is a humanitarian disaster, with no end in sight”

      • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        In the short term and long term economies are good

        lol

        Biden made large policy changes like Paris accords, chips act, inflation reduction act

        lol

        No meaningful white house scandals

        Genocides aren’t scandalous to american moderates, so sadly this one is valid

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        Honestly I think the lack of a primary is negative. But those keys aren’t that bad tbh. He’s just wrong on multiple points.

    • Aquilae [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Allan Lichtman, the American University historian who’s been dubbed the Nostradamus of presidential election predictions for his near-perfect 40-year track record.

      10 coin flips in a row is about 0.1% chance

      But if there’s few thousand people predicting elections each term, there’s bound to be a few people that get it correct every time

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    I’m bad at math but that’s only 7 presidents, so that’s 7 fifty fifty shots. If that were done as coin flips for everyone in America of voting age during those elections,.I’m pretty sure you’d see a thousand or more of the same results as this guy.

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    I don’t want to give this guy undo credit but I think it’s worth pointing out that the one election he got “wrong” was apparently the election of 2000. He predicted Gore would win.

    …yeah.