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Related: About this forumAllan Lichtman shares his prediction in the 2024 presidential election
Professor Lichtman studies keys rather than any polls. The keys originated from how they predict earthquakes and applied to US presidential elections. Stability vs shake things up.
Dennis Donovan
(25,163 posts)displacedvermoter
(3,017 posts)did so till he dropped out!
IronLionZion
(46,938 posts)since it's not just a rematch of 2020
ClimateHawk
(330 posts)Lichtman always said a lot would have to go wrong for the Biden to lose. He did say Biden dropping out would cause the incumbent party to lose the incumbency key. That could have lead to a contested convention causing them to lose the contest key. They would be down 2 keys making it almost impossible to win. Thankfully, the Democrats rallied around Harris persevering the contest key.
displacedvermoter
(3,017 posts)I saw a video of him speaking in some detail a while back and he led me to believe Biden was going to win.
Glad he feels the same about Harris, or maybe the same about Trump?
ClimateHawk
(330 posts)Also, his wiki page has a chart showing the 13 keys system. Scroll down to see the 2024 election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_to_the_White_House
Sneederbunk
(15,055 posts)Dennis Donovan
(25,163 posts)The one time he was wrong was Bush v Gore, and we all know Gore would've won had SCOTUS not jumped in and "selected" George W Bush. So he's actually 10/10 if you take that into account.