You know those guys who are crazy good at predicting elections and also think they're qualified to judge burritos? Well, the whole Five Thirty Eight team, including founder and editor-in-chief Nate Silver, podcast host and producer Jody Avirgan, senior policitcal writer and analyst Harry Enten, and senior political writer Clare Malone will all be on hand June 23 at San Francisco's Herbst Theater for a panel discussion with InForum. And yes, there are tickets available here starting at $50.
As you likely know, Silver founded the Five Thirty Eight blog which takes its name from the number of electors in the US electoral college in the midst of the 2008 election cycle. His mission was to add real statistics, polling, and demographic data to discussions around election predictions, and he and his team proceeded to accurately call the election for Obama as well as the winners of 35 Senate races. They were again accurate, in 50 out of 50 states, in calling the 2012 election, but so far 2016 has turned out to be a whole lot more bizarre and unpredictable.
Everyone, including me, hopes that at least the Five Thirty Eight will be able to accurately predict that Donald Trump will not be given the opportunity to light our country on fire and dance through the flames, but on June 23 you can at least listen to them hash it out. Also, you can "watch Nate and Harry go head-to-head in round two of their obscure political trivia game."
And, just today, FYI, FiveThirtyEight published this discussion about the latest presidential campaign polling which, disturbingly, discusses just how Donald Trump could win, and how the latest polls show some weird potential swing states and huge numbers of undecided voters.
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