Election 2018

Georgia 8th

Solid R

Uncontested

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Forecasted turnout
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# What goes into the
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classic forecast in the Georgia 8th

FiveThirtyEight hasn’t collected any polls in this district. Because this district doesn’t include both a Democratic and Republican candidate, CANTOR isn’t used. We rely on non-polling factors to project the race’s outcome.

#Latest polls

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#Similar districts and CANTOR

Our district similarity scores are based on demographic, geographic and political characteristics; if two districts have a score of 100, it means they are perfectly identical. These scores inform a system we use — CANTOR, or Congressional Algorithm using Neighboring Typologies to Optimize Regression — to infer what polling would say in unpolled or lightly polled districts, given what it says in similar districts.

Districts most similar to the Georgia 8th
Sim. score Polling avg.
GA-1084—
AL-280—
GA-1275—
LA-573—
SC-572—
LA-472—
AL-372—
MS-471R+12.4
GA-371—
GA-169—

How this forecast works

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