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Mike Pesca

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First of all, we all know about margin of error, and you can't really expect a poll to get it right within one point or two points.

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talk to 4,000 people and you could correctly figure out where, and you nail where 2,000 are going, but you don't nail where 1,770 are going, you didn't do a bad job.

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And that's essentially what the pollsters did.

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And if you look at the really close states, they were, I think they missed a little in Arizona, but they were within like a point and a half in Michigan and a point and a half in Wisconsin and a point or a,

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Two points in Pennsylvania.

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They actually did really well in the margin of error.

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And Nate Silver, who I guess took some heat because he said, it's very, very, very close.

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But he thought Kamala Harris, he didn't think his numbers show Kamala Harris would win.

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Although he wrote an article in the New York Times two weeks before saying, that's what the numbers say.

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My gut says Trump's going to win.

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day before the election, a chart of all the likely outcomes or all the possible outcomes in terms of the electoral college.

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And if you look at his chart, the number one outcome that he predicted would happen, the most likely outcome, was Trump winning exactly 312 electoral votes.

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How many electoral votes did Trump win?

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You know, I did watch Nate Silver.