Politics Podcast: No, The Model Doesn’t Care About The Early Vote

Early voting has begun! In this installment of Model Talk on the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Nate Silver explains why he doesn’t use early voting data to help forecast elections: Polls are more reliable, given that we don’t know all of the factors involved in early voting. Nate also answers questions from listeners, including which House … Continue reading Politics Podcast: No, The Model Doesn’t Care About The Early Vote