FiveThirtyEight Releases New Analytics Model Predicting Who Coronavirus Will Vote For

📆 5/21/2020 8:24 PM
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NEW YORK—In an attempt to keep its readers apprised of the infectious disease’s likely voting preferences, the data journalism website FiveThirtyEight unveiled a new analytics model Thursday that will attempt to predict who the coronavirus will support for president in November. “The question of which candidate this deadly global pandemic will vote for in the general election is what’s on everyone’s mind right now, and so we’re proud to announce the launch of FiveThirtyEight-19, a unique and highly sophisticated Covid-19 vote forecasting tool,” said editor-in-chief Nate Silver, explaining the interactive feature would employ a complex linear regression analysis to discern, with up to 99.2% accuracy, whether the acute respiratory disease will cast its ballot for incumbent Donald Trump or challenger Joe Biden. “This module will provide ongoing, real-time predictions based on the latest polling of the virus, which could be a decisive factor in the election, with the issues it raises influencing policy for the next four years and beyond. Of course, even a careful, data-driven approach has its limitations, especially since the coronavirus is among those low-information voters who lack clear political convictions and may not make up their minds until they enter the voting booth. But by using 17 different variables to profile the virus, we believe we can estimate its presidential pick as well as its down-ballot selections with a modest degree of certainty.” At press time, reports confirmed the FiveThirtyEight team was scrambling to come up with a new model after learning the coronavirus had mutated yet again.

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This model is highly suspect as the Coronavirus is Chinese and not eligible to vote in the United States. Please do better!

it's a virus it cant even use a keyboard

Definitely Biden via mail in voting alongside all the children who play with mail boxes and who do not have American birth certificates. Stop that from happening by not wearing masks!

It's doesn't matter, the Russians will hack the system using 5G towers🙄😤

She (because the virus is female) does not favour the rich...so she can’t be a republican.

Haaaaa!!

Trump has just dispatched 5000 Green Berets and Navy Seals to protect the River of Blood monument.

That's easy, the gop has helped it spread. 💀

Seems like the perfect time for the American Virus and Bacteria Party to finally gain traction.

They will vote for the one with the worst virus protection. And if they could vote, the one who they voted for will definitely win the election and the next 4 years will also be disastrous.

Like every virus it’s probably a Bernie bro

I finally get it. The governor of Georgia is trying to write MAGA in the infection chart!

Is he considering the impact of Russian bots on the Coronavirus' wedge issues?

What a smear job. Why?

Surprisingly it likes the Green party.

Think we already know that answer maga

NateSilver538

Lmao now this is quality content

538? Those clowns that predicted HRC would win?

Does the model use registered viruses or likely viruses in its polling data?

Lemme guess, “Al Gore”

Bernie lost get over it.

Hillary Clinton. Together they can wipe out the entire country. (And make it look like a suicide)😉

haha.

😂 they’re getting pretty close to perfecting this model, first of its kind!

Coronavirus votes for trump.. cos he has an open season policy on the death of his people.

Trump!

Lol. I love you Onion 😂😂

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