Forecasts still point to a Biden presidency

Forecasts still point to a Biden presidency
Andy Fyers
Seemingly traumatised by the upset of 2016, few US election watchers seem prepared to spell out in plain language what the forecasts are saying – that Joe Biden is the overwhelming favourite to win the presidential election.The irony is that most pundits and prognosticators are far less confident of a win for the Democractic candidate than they were in 2016, when the polls were far more favourable for Trump – albeit that they still made him an underdog.US election forecast supremo Nate Silver has published two articles in the past t...

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