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Sep 7, 2024 · An underdog, by definition, is a contender who has dim prospects of winning. In the final stretch of the presidential race, it’s the mantle Kamala Harris' campaign wants to claim.
- Natasha Korecki
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Aug 4, 2024 · In politics, for instance, there is some evidence that being labelled as an underdog can increase a candidate's perceived warmth and likeability. More like this: • Why prioritising your friends ...
Jul 31, 2024 · An underdog is someone who is currently losing a fair competition but can win it with hard work; a victim has been unfairly wronged. What connects them, though, is an impulse to be seen as an ...
- David A. Graham
Sep 1, 2024 · News World Americas US politics Harris’s campaign embraces ‘underdog’ label – even as polling shows her beating Trump Harris team says they won’t take polling surge for granted as they ...
- Momentum Effect: It Helps to Be Ahead
- The West Coast Effect
- Manipulating Betting Markets
- Trump’s Chances Overrated
In laboratory experiments recreating elections in controlled settings, California Institute of Technology economist Marina Agranov and colleaguesfound polls “lead to more participation by the expected majority and generate more landslide elections”. A similar effect has been observed in real elections. Using polling and voting data from French elec...
In the United States the possibility of such an effect of early information has been discussed as the “West Coast effect”, whereby voters in California and other western US states can be influenced by early results from the east coast, three hours ahead. This issue became very salient in 1980 when NBC released an early prediction at 8pm New York ti...
However, people who want to influence the public narrative about who is winning can influence something: betting markets. These are used to estimate the candidates’ winning chances. On these markets, people can put their money where their mouth is, and bet on the candidate they think will win. But what if someone is willing to put a lot of money on...
In 2020, Trump’s chances have been surprisingly high in betting markets given the polls. What does research say about this fact? In past research, I have found political betting markets tend to be biased toward 50%. That is, they tend to say the race is closer to 50/50 than it is. This bias is larger than on other types of betting markets (such as ...
- Lionel Page
Mar 20, 2015 · Some researchers point out that this could provide a good reason to root for the underdog: you have less to lose if your team loses, and a lot more to gain if it pulls off an upset. No one has ...
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Oct 1, 2019 · The ‘underdog’ in competition is the one who is expected to lose. Just over a decade ago, leading names in underdog research reported on a series of studies which explored the appeal of the ...
