So, what about the question I asked? You have no opinion on whether high 
turnout negatively or positively correlates with narrow victories?


On 10/28/20 4:52 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> I predict that Biden will win by a large margin and that the outcome will be 
> clear on election night notwithstanding any outstanding uncounted votes.  
> Young people are voting in unprecedented numbers and are reportedly voting 
> against Trump.  Similarly the elderly, who favored Trump over Clinton by 10+ 
> percentage points in 2016 are favoring Biden over Trump by a similar margin, 
> according to polls.
> 
> The good thing about predictions is that they can be evaluated perfectly 
> after the events have happened.
> 
> Frank
> 
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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 5:20 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     From:
> 
>     https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2020/Pres/Maps/Oct28.html#item-7 
> <https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2020/Pres/Maps/Oct28.html#item-7>
>     "6. High turnout makes razor-thin victories, like the ones Trump notched 
> in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania in 2016, much less likely."
> 
>     Is that true? I've always heard that tight races lead to higher turnout, 
> which would imply that high turnout would correlate WITH thin victories, not 
> against them.

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