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Do any of them equal 1? Saying that >50% probability means that the model picks the state for Obama would be fine as a classification rule, but he's trying to estimate the probabilities, not forecast who will win.

The ~20% comes from the electoral vote distribution, where you can back out the mix of states that gives 332 Electoral college votes.



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