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Who do US psychics predict will win the election?

2 November 2024

9:00 AM

2 November 2024

9:00 AM

A week away from the American election, and the polls cannot tell us who will be president. But can they ever? A poll is, as the pundits always remind us, a snapshot of public opinion, not a prediction. Nate Silver himself said that anyone dissecting an individual poll is ‘just doing astrology’.

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