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Eleven Three Twenty: My Predictions for the Electoral College
November 3, 2020
For political junkies like me, today is Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the Super Bowl all rolled into one. After months of following numerous political web sites, listening and watching countless pundits and campaign spokespeople, and poring over and dissecting polls ranging from quality pollsters to thinly veiled public relations firms, I am SO ready for Election Day and everything that comes with it.
If you’ve been following this series, you know I have been objectively presenting the current state of the Electoral College, based on poll numbers and The Cook Political Report and FiveThirtyEight.com — two of the two most highly respected, non-partisan electoral college/election tracking sites.
But for this special Election Day edition, I’ve chosen to put myself out there and offer you my prediction for the final Electoral College map. I’m also listing the three states I’ve allocated for each candidate that I am LEAST sure about, including why I’m so uncertain about them and where they objectively stand going into today.
My Electoral Map
As I alluded to in my column yesterday, a whole slew of high-quality state and national polls were released over the final three days of the campaign. Some of them showed the race…
