On one of the most crucial dates in the 2016 primary presidential, FiveThirtyEight is providing comprehensive live coverage of Super Tuesday. In addition to several articles related to the key issues of the race, the political team will host a live blog and a Slack Chat beginning at 5 p.m. ET. New features include a new delegate-centric interactive, a podcast and two Super Guides as well as ongoing coverage of the storylines impacting voters across the 12 states and analysis of the results.
ABC News will feature Nate Silver and team during the special television coverage examining the numbers and giving context to the presidential race.
Highlights of FiveThirtyEight’s coverage include:
Super Guide to Super Tuesday, by senior political writer and analyst Harry Enten: Democratic Edition and Republican Edition
Who’s On Track For The Nomination? by Aaron Bycoffee and David Wasserman
An interactive feature estimating the number of delegates each candidate would need in each primary contest to win the nomination.
Elections Podcast: Special Super Tuesday Preview
This week’s elections podcast crew previews Super Tuesday and discusses whether Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are locks to win the Republican and Democratic nominations, respectively.
“I’ve broken the 12 Super Tuesday states into three rough categories based on factors such as income, unemployment and education. These categories…should give a sense of which states are facing similar challenges. As the results come in this evening, we’ll begin to get a sense of whether these states vote in similar ways as well.”
“…Sanders’s prospects in most Super Tuesday states are looking bleak. But over the past month or so, Sanders has eaten into Hillary Clinton’s lead in Oklahoma — chomped through it, actually. Sanders went from being down 25 points in mid-January to bringing the race to within 2 points by mid-February in one poll. He recently said flat-out he thinks he’ll win the state. Why the surge?
Don’t Assume Conservatives Will Rally Behind Trump, by Nate Silver
On Wednesday, the crew will publish several post-Super Tuesday features, analyzing the results and anticipating the next steps leading up to the general election.
FiveThirtyEight, which launched as an ESPN entity in 2014, is a data journalism organization delivering compelling stories across the verticals of politics, economy, science, life and sports. The site, founded by award-winning author and statistician Nate Silver, first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when it correctly predicted the results of the presidential election in 49 of 50 states, along with all 35 U.S. Senate races. Since its debut at ESPN, FiveThirtyEight has built a team with a broad set of skills and experiences in order to apply statistical analysis, data visualization, and data-literate reporting to topics in the news and in everyday life.
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