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Midterm Madness: The Crowd Tries to Predict the Election
To try and entice political action “Midterm Madness” at The Washington Post and Predict06 have turned Election Day into a game: asking for predictions in every congressional race to see if your picks will match the final outcome and if the crowd is any good at predicting elections.
The Predict06 community, an experiment in political crowdsourcing, will forecast the outcome for each election by averaging over 50,000 votes collected in just three weeks.
