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By BBC World Service

Predicting US elections results every hour

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Published October 13, 2020 3:00pm

Can political forecasting be quicker? That’s a question posed by Thomas Miller from Northwestern University, who has created a model that simulates a million hypothetical US presidential election results every hour. The model does not use traditional data sources like polling surveys but betting data.

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