David Pakman· Oct 31, 2024
Discussing Virginia's voter-registration purge, he argued it was unlikely to matter because Virginia will vote Democratic in the presidential race anyway and is not a battleground. On Pennsylvania he explicitly declined to make a call, saying the race is a coin flip.
“Virginia is likely to go blue regardless of the voter purges that are going on.”
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- Race WinnersOct 31, 2024
“First of all, I mean, taking a very pragmatic approach, Virginia is likely to go blue regardless of the voter purges that are going on. Virginia is unlikely to be the deciding state.”
Hit · 100Scored 100a naive guess scored 100+0 skillHow this was scored
- right:
- yes
- race:
- 2024-president-va
- election year:
- 2024
- skill:
- 0
- topic:
- elections
- held going in by:
- Democratic
- in their words:
- likely to go blue
- result from:
- fec-2024-president
- who won:
- Kamala Harris
- accuracy:
- 100
- baseline:
- 100
- race name:
- 2024 U.S. presidential election in Virginia
- decided in the:
- general
- they said:
- Kamala Harris
- days before the vote when called:
- 4
- difficulty:
- 1.01
- the winner's party:
- Democratic
- the naive guess:
- the party holding the seat keeps it
- Election Day:
- 2024-11-05
- the result is:
- certified
- the party they named:
- Democratic
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