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Popular Topics in r/fivethirtyeight
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Election
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Trump
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Democrats
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House
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Elections
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Republicans
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Polls
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Biden
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2024
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Senate
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Poll Results
: "FOX Poll: Ossoff Leads Collins By 13% for Georgia Senate, Bottoms Leads Governor's Race By 5%"
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#2
Politics
: "[AP] Dan Sullivan can appear on the Alaska election ballot with Dan Sullivan, State Supreme Court rules."
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Discussion
: "The Toughest Places to Build: Behind the Scenes of a Wall Street Journal Analysis"
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Election Model
: "Flashback to the Cook Political Report’s 2004 Electoral College Scorecard"
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Polling Average
: "[Austria] The far-right party FPÖ, which was founded by a now-dead Nazi Party Minister and which has a formal alliance with Vladimir Putin's party (United Russia), achieves its best-ever poll results. On the polar opposite end, the Communist Party slumps near its worst-ever poll results (2%)."
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Discussion Megathread
: "Weekly Discussion Megathread"
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Meme/Humor
: "Gus the Cat wins July 1 election for pet mayor of Manor, Texas, defeating Franklin the Dog 61-39. Context: this was a smaller margin than the 69-29 Harris victory in 2024. In a ‘special election’ backed by The League of Women Voters, all Manor, TX residents above the age of 7 were eligible to vote."
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Polling Industry/Methodology
: "Why have the most credible pollsters gone dark in Michigan?"
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Sports
: "Keir Starmer has gotta have the least juice of any world leader when it comes to getting a FIFA decision overturned, should probably have put that in the model."
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