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« on: January 27, 2016, 02:34:14 PM » |
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The idea behind the point system is that there are far fewer governors and senators than house members.
Silver admits that the model isn't perfect, because it doesn't take into account newspapers or state legislators. But he also notes that in every republican primary going back to at least 1980, the candidate who would have been leading under his metric just before Iowa went on to win the nomination every time.
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