The delayed election results in key battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and subsequent shifts in vote margins as mail-in ballots are counted, was entirely predicted. The multi-university team of researchers behind the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States laid out their findings from October nation-wide surveys of likely voters in this Election Day blog post.
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