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I’ve won several awards over the years, most recently the Citrin Award for achievements in public opinion research from the Citrin Center at the University of California at Berkeley. The New York Times is capturing readers anxiety in real time with each bounce of its wildly swinging election forecast needle. Before that, I was a staff writer for The New Republic and a research assistant at The Henry L. Jones aimed to create a lead in the urban.

I work closely with our election results and election analytics teams to make election night projections and to build our live election night forecast, known as “the needle.” My Background Doug Jones, a Democrat, won the special election on Tuesday to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, now the attorney general. I’m also responsible for the methodology of the New York Times/Siena College survey, which I started in 2016. The 2022 United States elections were held on November 8, 2022, with the exception of absentee balloting. My writing for The Upshot and my newsletter, The Tilt, is analytical, explanatory, empirical and data-driven.

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