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The 21 places that will decide the election

The 21 places that will decide the election

My NYT essay + interactive, the polls tighten, 538 looks at Wisconsin and Georgia, polling error goes both ways, YouGov's models, a Polymarket investigation, the red-pilling of Silicon Valley

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No. 335 | October 18th, 2024

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My new guest essay for The New York Times looks at the 21 microcommunities across the four battleground states that could decide the election.  

Readers of this newsletter may recognize these from my pieces on battleground political geography over the last year. And the superstar NYT graphics team of Quoctrung Bui and Aileen Clark made it come alive with maps (some in 3D!) and photos from these places. I’m really excited by how this turned out!

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