The Long Odds of Voting

by Ryan Young on August 17, 2009

in Odds & Ends, Politics as Usual

A new NBER working paper by Andrew Gelman, Nate Silver, and Aaron Edlin finds that “On average, a voter in America had a 1 in 60 million chance of being decisive in the [2008] presidential election.”

Live in a swing state like Virginia? 1 in 10 million.

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