Environmental lead (Pb) and crime
At Mother Jones, Kevin Drum has an in-depth article on the hypothesis that environmental lead is a likely root cause of the increase in cri...
Senate: 48 Dem | 52 Rep (range: 47-52)
Control: R+2.9% from toss-up
Generic polling: Tie 0.0%
Control: Tie 0.0%
Harris: 265 EV (239-292, R+0.3% from toss-up)
Moneyball states: President NV PA NC
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The polls are coming fast and furious now. For an interesting point, see today’s reporting by Nate Silver. He points out that McCain’s bounce appears not to be evenly distributed. If true, this works against McCain because his popular support is coming in deep red states where it doesn’t affect his EV count.
It also means that the EV adjustment I’ve been giving may be overstated. I’ve been applying the national bounce as a simple, across-the-board shift. But this is not right. Silver gives a more elaborate correction which is also likely to have a similar problem. He has used demographic and undecided-voter arguments that don’t match the pattern implied here, which may include many white fundamentalists coming home to Jesus, as it were; or perhaps rural voters.
This is going to be very interesting – among other things, it increases the likelihood of Obama winning the electoral vote but losing the popular vote. Gore avenged?
In any case, it looks like we’ll get caught up sooner than I expected. Tune in for our next top-line update at midnight.