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2016 Postmortem

hack89

(39,171 posts) Fri Oct 16, 2015, 01:54 PM Oct 2015

538: Did The Democratic Debate Change The Odds?

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/did-the-democratic-debate-change-the-odds/

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538: Did The Democratic Debate Change The Odds? (Original Post) hack89 Oct 2015 OP

Hmmm randys1 Oct 2015 #1

Still, as Jonathan Bernstein reminds us, the media has extremely strong incentives to make the Agnosticsherbet Oct 2015 #2

Nate has some good analysis on the Democratic primary process Gothmog Oct 2015 #3

538 said Webb would be the anti-Hillary jfern Oct 2015 #4

Thank you for the link./nt DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #5

randys1

(16,286 posts)

1. Hmmm

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Fri Oct 16, 2015, 02:00 PM

Oct 2015

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Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

2. Still, as Jonathan Bernstein reminds us, the media has extremely strong incentives to make the

Reply to hack89 (Original post)

Fri Oct 16, 2015, 02:53 PM

Oct 2015

the Democratic race seem competitive. So if Clinton seems “inevitable” again, especially if Biden doesn’t run, it will judge Clinton’s subsequent debate performances more harshly.

That is why we take everything said by the media with a ton of salt.