“The Washington Post has one of the most authoritative, well-sourced political teams in the country, and one of our driving values is ensuring readers have the information they want and can better help understand the country’s diverse and changing political landscape,” said Peter Wallsten, senior politics editor for The Washington Post. The Post will leverage predictive modeling on election nights to provide readers with an unprecedented view beyond the raw vote count. Developed by The Post’s elections engineering team, the model uses historical election results, a deep understanding of the shape of the electorate and live precinct results to estimate how many additional uncounted votes might exist for each candidate. Beginning with the Iowa caucuses, The Post will be among the first non-broadcast outlets to subscribe to the National Election Pool (NEP) for live election results. When combined with The Post’s new, instantaneously-loading pages, our readers will be able to follow results faster than ever before.

Source: Washington Post February 03, 2020 13:52 UTC