there was a funny catfight between two people who are election prognosticators, Professor Allan Lichtman and Nate Silver.

Lichtman has a system where he applies true or false questions to 13 questions. if there are six or more false answers, the challenger -- in this case, former President Donald Trump -- would win. But Lichtman has interpreted his keys and he's predicting Kamala Harris will win. //

Nate Silver
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The funny thing is if you actually apply his keys correctly based on how he's applied them in the past, they predict a Trump victory. More about this soon lol.
Allan Lichtman
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Nate Silver has finally seen the light! Weeks after I predicted a Harris victory he has come down from a 2/3 probability of a Trump victory to a 58% probability of a Harris victory.
2:41 PM · Sep 27, 2024

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Nate. you don’t have the faintest idea about how to apply my keys. You are neither a historian or a political scientist or have any academic credentials of any kind. Remember you were wrong when you said the keys could early predict Obama’s reelection.
3:18 PM · Sep 27, 2024

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I've spent way too much time on this and have a lot of receipts from how you've applied your keys in the past! At least 7 of the keys, maybe 8, clearly favor Trump. Sorry brother, but that's what the keys say. Unless you're admitting they're totally arbitrary?

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Allan let's just say the little tricks you've played with the Keys in the past will come back to haunt you! The Keys shall be respected: they will outlast this little rivalry of ours. And they clearly predict a Trump win!

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"No Man nor Beast shall have the power to Turn the Keys, for the Keys are Eternal and True."

• A. J. Lichtman; V. I. Keilis-Borok (Nov 1981). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
  5:36 PM · Sep 27, 2024