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by malnourish 2050 days ago
According to Nate Silver:

> Biden is likely to wind up with one of the higher percentages of votes as a share of the U.S. population that we’ve seen in a long time

Referencing this tweet, text copied below as well https://twitter.com/jtlevy/status/1324408585590329345

[credit: Jacob T. Levy]

  vote share * turnout

  Reagan 1984: 53.3*58.8= 31.3%

  W Bush 2004: 50.7*56.7=28.7%

  Obama 2008: 52.9*58.2=30.8%

  Biden 2020, estimated: 51*66 = 33.7%

  counted so far: 50.5*60.3=30.4% (as of 2020-11-05)