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U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread

With apologies to our many friends and posters outside the United States... it's time for another one of these! Culture war thread rules apply, and you are permitted to openly advocate for or against an issue or candidate on the ballot (if you clearly identify which ballot, and can do so without knocking down any strawmen along the way). "Small-scale" questions and answers are also permitted if you refrain from shitposting or being otherwise insulting to others here. Please keep the spirit of the law--this is a discussion forum!--carefully in mind.

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Oh, man, speaking of Nate Silver - apparently his attempt at making a live election night tracker has sputtered out and crashed because its design was low-effort enough that it kept outputting probabilities near 50% long after everyone else had called that Trump probably had it in the bag. That's especially embarrassing for him because the main criticism of Nate through this cycle has been that his model distorts the race to make it look closer to even than it actually is in order to generate drama.

In retrospect, it seems like the obvious failure mode of his election night product. Plenty of information would exist about the state of the race in swing states long before any were actually called, but his election night model would ignore that information. If you wait on saying anything until news orgs have called PA, you'll be hours behind everyone else.