Not so fast my friend.
I want to be clear upfront I don’t think she’s getting close to that total if she wins*.
theres a lot of talk a few pages back about the declining GOP EC advantage and how pollsters are dealing with systemic errors. 2016 and 2020 saw large systemic errors in favor of Clinton and Biden in the 2-4% range, but there’s no real reason to believe that those errors persist this time around, or for that matter that pollsters wouldn’t overcorrect in the other direction. In other words, the polls aren’t wrong, but they are just a snapshot of a group at a point in time.
this is a tight election and there’s no getting around that fact, but I continue to believe that the “undecided voter” will move as a group at the end in a way that may be invisible to polling. I was playing around with some numbers on 270 to win this morning and the output was very interesting.
If the polling averages are correct as of today, Harris wins with 292 EC votes, holding Nev, NC, Wi, MI, PA.
If there’s a systematic 2% error in Trump’s favor he picks up all of the above and gets 312EVs
With a 3% error in his favor across the board he also would win Oregon and Minnesota, or 330, and with a 3.5% error he would pick up VA, OR and Neb 2, putting his total at 343.
On the other hand:
if there is a 2% error in her favor, she wins picks up Maine 2, AZ, GA and maybe IA for 326. With 3% in her favor, she would also win Florida and Alaska, or 359 EVs, and with 3.5% she would win Texas and possibly Ohio, putting her at 399-416.
*Inshallah!