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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.

If you're a U.S. citizen with voting rights, your polling place can reportedly be located here.

If you're still researching issues, Ballotpedia is usually reasonably helpful.

Any other reasonably neutral election resources you'd like me to add to this notification, I'm happy to add.

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holy smokes man, thanks for writing all this up. Very clearly explained here, appreciate the alpha.

I wanted to make a top post about a few topics around the election like my puzzlement with the esteem Nate Silver gets, or talking about my approach to political betting, and listing my predictions, but I guess I'm just too lazy. I logged in on Monday to do it but instead scrolled and reply guyed.

You should definitely do it, I'm sure that, like me, many people would find this stuff fascinating, and there isn't too much public info on prediction market techniques and what not (except for very rare strategy posts on Kalshi regarding e.g. the Temperature markets - which mostly boil down to "read the rules, dumbass"). Obviously most of us here don't have the same resources as that French trader who commissioned his own polls, so comparing existing/past data and over/underestimation trends is def the way to go. 'preciate it!