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by rexpop 599 days ago
> Donald Trump Concedes...

Hm, maybe the prompt is too tightly constrained.

There is historical precedent for Donald Trump refusing to concede a presidential race, as seen in the 2020 election when he did not formally concede to Joe Biden and instead launched numerous legal challenges, citing unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.

But I concede that no such outcome is represented in the FiveThirtyEight dataset.

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Indeed, I’m just piping FiveThirthyEight > facts > LLM. And what the LLM makes of that is what you’re seeing, I tried to brief it as dry as possible in the prompt!
I was going to point out this flaw too...

Also, Tuesday is election Day, why would a paper with that date already have the results; it won't. In 2020 the final count result came several days after the election day, although by that point Biden had enough EC votes.

A more interesting "predict the future" site would be one that can see the mood of the angry side of the electorate (e.g. based on social media) and predict terroristic acts big and small.

As an article I read a while ago and happen to agree with, the country is already in the next civil war, a lot of people are just in denial. One can deem it a cold civil war.