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Just wanted to point out the big losers of last night were:
The big winners:
It's weird that the Modal outcome happening means Silver lost.
(no seriously his forecast was that trumps most likely path to victory was sweeping all 6 swing states happening 20% of the time)
His other 3 forecasts for most likely trump victory being
Winning everything but Michigan and wisconsin, winning everything but wisconsin, and winning everything but nevada.
When you read deeper into his forecast as to how each candidate would win you see that it's basically "win by a narrow margin in every single major contest causing a blowout in the score"
Silver got feisty about Florida, trying to make a 100k bet that Trump would win by less than 8.
Trump won by 13.
It was an unnecessary own goal.
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