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Nov 2024
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What top election forecasters are predic...

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Top election forecasters Lakshya Jain (Split Ticket) and Logan Phillips (Race to the White House) join Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels to give their key insights and predictions for Tuesday. They discuss how to analyze early voting returns, who the remaining swing voters are, and why polls are more useful than most people give them credit for. Stay until the end, where they each share what one race that will be called early on Election Night that will signal to them who the next president is going to be.


Eugene Daniels is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO.

Lakshya Jain is CEO and co-founder of Split Ticket.

Logan Phillips is founder of Race to the White House.

Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO audio. 

Alex Keeney is a senior producer for POLITICO audio.

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