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Our best and worst takes of 2024

SBSQ #16: Nate’s Incomplete Guide to Vegas

Nobody goes to New York City anymore. It’s too crowded.

How the Indigo Blob runs a bluff

Save Daylight Savings Time

Is it crazy to pay Juan Soto $765 million?

Don't mistake Democratic partisan orthodoxy for a "coherent" philosophy

Part II: The failed rebrand of Kamala Harris

Part I: Democrats' risk-aversion helped to re-elect Trump

The expert class is failing, and so is Biden’s presidency

SBSQ #15: Democrats have a "fool me twice" problem

Always. Be. Blogging.

Hopium comes at a high price

Kamala Harris was a replacement-level candidate

It's 2004 all over again

The model exactly predicted the most likely election map

The story of Trump's win was foretold in New York City

Silver Bulletin 2024 election night coverage

SBSQ #14: Election Day lightning round!

A random number generator determined the “favorite" in our forecast

FINAL Silver Bulletin 2024 presidential election forecast

The polls are close, but that doesn’t mean the results will be

A shocking Iowa poll means somebody is going to be wrong

There’s more herding in swing state polls than at a sheep farm in the Scottish Highlands

How high will turnout be?

The early vote doesn't reliably predict results

Trump's dominating the news again. Maybe that's good news for Harris.

The state of play in the 7 states that will decide the election

The border may tip the election to Trump

A mystery in likely voter polls

Why Harris could beat her polls

Likability isn't enough

24 reasons that Trump won

Yep, the media should cover Trump's age more — and Biden's too

Does Trump have momentum?

Are Republican pollsters “flooding the zone?”

Kamala Harris needs weird voters

New York Times polls are betting on a political realignment

Why you should mostly ignore "internal polls"

When you should panic about the polls

55/45 is a really close race

What’s behind Trump’s surge in prediction markets?

Should Kamala Harris gamble on a Blue Florida?

Is Tim Walz bringing vibes to a knife fight?

SBSQ #13: October Surprise edition

The 128 paths to the White House

Which polls are biased toward Harris or Trump?

Pigs fly. Hell freezes over. The Electoral College favors ... Democrats?

Trust a pollster more when it publishes “outliers”

A tour of the 7½ key swing states

Don't let randomness make a fool of you

Mad about the Electoral College? Blame California.

Harris is gaining in post-debate polls

Alaska, Alaska, Alaska

This was Trump's election to lose. And he just might.

A guide to post-debate poll-watching

Kamala Harris got the debate she wanted

Will this be the last debate?

The mistakes of 2019 could cost Harris the election

Oops! I made the convention bounce adjustment disappear.

The Electoral College bias has returned with a vengeance

There’s no “normal” in this election

SBSQ #12: Will the polls lowball Trump again?

Pennsylvania may be a problem for Harris

Could Kamala Harris really win North Carolina — and lose Georgia?

How big will the bounce be?

We removed RFK Jr. from our model. But it didn’t hurt Kamala.

Kamala Harris is not going back to the failed politics of 2016

RFK Jr. just dropped out. Is that bearish for Harris?

Against revisionist history on Biden 2024

Is Trump on tilt?

SBSQ #11b: On the future of the newsletter — and the sports models

Can Kamala Harris win in Incumbent Mode?

Election Model comments overflow room

Where Harris has improved the most on Biden

Welcome to the River

Steph Curry is Magic

Kamala Harris can't meme her way to victory. Or can she?

Welcome to the bizarre world of conditional probability

Tim Walz is a Minnesota Nice choice

Kamalamentum vs. economic headwinds

SBSQ #11a: Why she should pick Shapiro

The presidential election is a toss-up

How the election model handles a candidate swap

Harris is in much better shape than Biden. But she has one big problem.

kamala_mode will be activated tomorrow

Silver Bulletin 2024 Biden-Trump forecast archive

Could Josh Shapiro win Kamala Harris the Electoral College?

Shameless book plug

Did Biden's decline in the polls hurt Democratic Senate candidates?

7 quick thoughts on the latest Harris-Trump polling

Harris is the clear choice of Democratic voters

Biden and Democrats make the rational choice

Betting markets think Biden should quit

Why I don't buy 538's new election model

J.D. Vance offers Democrats an opening

The low road, the high road, and the way the wind blows

The case for, and against, Kamala Harris

Biden needs to do more than make up his deficit in national polls

Biden has a weak hand

Blaming the media is what got Democrats into this mess

The broken leg problem

What Democrats should do next

SBSQ #10: Everything you always wanted to know about the election model but were afraid to ask

Emergency podcast on the state of the presidential race

Joe Biden should drop out

Are these guys trying to muddle through? Or playing to win?

The presidential election isn't a toss-up

2024 presidential election model methodology update

The model is coming

The Celtics are the prototype of a modern NBA champion

Why 270 is the most dangerous number

Don't be a nit

SBSQ #9: ⚡ Lightning Round edition ⚡

How much will Trump's conviction harm him? Watch low-information voters.

What is the most urban state?

Comments will now mostly be for paying subscribers

21 tips for acing the World Series of Poker

First episode of Risky Business podcast

What Biden's debate gambit reveals

Your friends are not a representative sample of public opinion

The long, strange political shadow of 2020

Kevin Durant has bad vibes

Announcing Risky Business, a new podcast with Maria Konnikova

For most people, politics is about fitting in

SBSQ #8: Trump might be a felon before the election. Does that mean the polls are worthless?

Don't confuse attention-seeking activists for "the youth vote"

Job listing: Assistant Elections Analyst

Go to a state school

NBA playoffs preview with Neil Paine 🎧

Biden's position in the polls is* improving against Trump — here's my theory for why

Announcing 2024 election model plans

I still have 2 big questions about the Shohei Ohtani case

Sonia Sotomayor's retirement is a political IQ test

Nebraska probably won't cost Biden the Electoral College

Americans love Florida, even if you don't

SBSQ #7: The perfect MLB realignment plan doesn't exist—

Elite Eight NCAA update

How culture trumps economic class as the new political fault line

NCAA Women's Sweet Sixteen projections

NCAA Sweet Sixteen projections

March Madness: Saturday night live update

NCAA tournament projections Round of 32 update

Why did Shohei Ohtani allegedly wire $4.5m to a bookmaker?

2024 March Madness predictions

2024 Women's March Madness predictions

Democrats are hemorrhaging support with voters of color

Biden needs to win over public opinion, not pundit opinion

Why the political clock is ticking for TikTok

Nikki Haley's problem is America's problem

The White House is betting the election on a theory of skewed polls 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Biden’s problem is with swing voters, not with his base

SBSQ #6: People are fleeing California and New York. Will that make other states bluer?

Google abandoned "don't be evil" — and Gemini is the result

It's time for the White House to put up or shut up

Biden isn't losing because of bad economic vibes

Officially announcing On The Edge, my new book

Not everything is #ButHerEmails

SBSQ #5: The 5 types of people who argue on the Internet

If you think resistance is futile, you're always going to lose

Slouching Towards Trump

What's in store for me in 2024