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Comment by scrooched_moose

If you dig into the the margins they aren't looking very good, even if they got a fair number of eventual winners correct.

Predicted vs Actual (FiveThirtyEight's averages vs NYTimes' current tally; Biden's margin is positive)

PA: +4.7% vs +.5% (-4.2%)

FL: +2.5 vs -3.4 (-5.9)

TX: -1.5 vs -5.9 (-4.4)

OH: -0.6 vs -8.1 (-7.5)

PA: +4.7 vs +0.5 (-4.2)

IA: -1.5 vs -8.2 (-6.7)

NC: +1.7 vs -1.4 (-3.1)

WI: +8.3 vs +0.6 (-7.7)

GA: +0.9 vs +0.1 (-.8)

MI: +8.0 vs +2.6 (-5.4)

AZ: +2.6 vs +0.6 (-2.0)

NV: +6.2 vs +2.0 (-4.2)

They pretty consistently overpredicted Biden's margin by about 4-7% in almost all of the swing states. Even if that's within, or close to, the margin of error; there's a systemic issue if it's happening in almost every state.

Edit: Added AZ and NV; and the difference

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