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Cryptocurrency News Articles
The 2024 Race Could Be Decided by a Single State, Just Like These 7 Elections
Oct 01, 2024 at 05:59 am
If the race is close enough, the outcome of the 2024 presidential election could rest entirely on the results in one battleground state — making that state a “decisive” tipping point.
The 2024 presidential race is shaping up to be a nail-biter, with Vice President Kamala Harris holding a narrow lead over former President Donald Trump in the latest polling averages. According to FiveThirtyEight's presidential election forecast, Harris wins in 57 out of 100 simulations, making it practically a coin-flip race.
The most critical swing states are all on a knife's edge in the polls. Based on the latest state polling averages, Harris leads by around 1 to 2 points in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Trump holds roughly a 1-point edge in Arizona and Georgia, while North Carolina is essentially tied.
This group of battlegrounds is very likely to provide us with the eventual “tipping-point” state in the 2024 presidential election. If we line up each state (and the congressional districts in Maine and Nebraska) by how large the margin of victory is for the winner of that state — from most Democratic to most Republican, or vice versa — the tipping point is the contest that hands the Electoral College winner the clinching 270th electoral vote. That mark represents an outright majority of today's 538 total electoral votes, which is necessary for someone to win the presidential election.
Of course, each presidential election has a tipping point, regardless of whether it's a landslide, in which the tipping point is largely academic, or a nail-biter, in which we're closely monitoring that state as a potential decider of the outcome — as could well be the case this year.
Looking at FiveThirtyEight's forecast, the most likely tipping-point state across all scenarios for the 2024 election is Pennsylvania. In 18 out of 100 cases, the Keystone State provides the winning electoral votes for either Harris or Trump.* The next-most-likely tipping points are North Carolina, Michigan, Georgia, and Florida, each of which have around a 1 in 10 shot of filling that role. Beyond them, the remaining scenarios mostly involve Wisconsin, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, and Minnesota serving as the tipping point.
Even more notably, considering how close this election is, its outcome could rest entirely on which way the tipping-point state votes — making that state a “decisive” tipping point. As a result, the 2024 contest could join the short list of races absolutely decided by the outcome in that place — that is, contests in which neither candidate could win a majority in the Electoral College without capturing the tipping-point state.
Critically, Pennsylvania's importance remains paramount in the smaller number of scenarios involving a decisive tipping-point state — which make up slightly more than 1 in 8 scenarios in FiveThirtyEight's presidential forecast. Now, thinking probabilistically, an event that has around a 1 in 8 chance of happening isn't terribly likely to happen, but remains highly plausible. For instance, it's about the same chance as flipping a coin three times and getting three heads in a row!
Among these more select cases, Pennsylvania has around a 17 in 100 shot of being the tipping point, followed by Michigan at about 14 in 100, North Carolina at 13 in 100, and Georgia at 11 in 100. The potential nail-biting involved in these scenarios could permanently damage your cuticles. Just consider that the vote count in Pennsylvania may be slow because election law prevents officials from beginning to process mail ballots before 7 a.m. on Election Day. And in Georgia, Republicans on the state election board have implemented rules to force cumbersome — and slower, more error-prone — hand counts of all votes at each precinct to check if the total matches the machine count, although those changes face a legal challenge to their implementation.
Regardless of the pace of the count, however, the campaigns and their allies well know how essential these states, especially Pennsylvania, are to winning in November. As of mid-September, Harris and pro-Harris groups had reserved about $76 million in ads in the Keystone State through Election Day, based on a recent analysis by AdImpact, compared with around $61 million by Trump and pro-Trump outfits. That combined total of nearly $137 million accounted for more than one-quarter of all ad bookings in the seven leading swing states, with (appropriately) Michigan the next-closest, with just shy of one-fifth (about $97 million combined). Pennsylvania has also hosted more presidential campaign events than any other state, per data from VoteHub, again followed by Michigan.
That Pennsylvania, Michigan, or another key swing state could prove singularly decisive has positioned 2024 to potentially join a rare group of elections whose outcome rested solely on the tipping-point state. That's been true of just seven of the 39 presidential elections
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