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I am a longtime follower of PredictIt for political data and forecasting. The platform provides tremendous insights into current trends surrounding upcoming elections, while capping the sway of wealthy individuals to skew markets. This means I can use the forecast as a reasonable indicator of what is to come and can prepare accordingly. The platform also provides a fantastic synopsis of current events, factually-based, and applies that info to the forecast, thus showing the impacts of real time actions on the outcomes of elections. This is the finest first-line news source, and links to multiple unbiased, facts-based news sources, to help me stay informed as a citizen.
To lose this resource for elections would be a great loss, both individually, but also as a tool for media, activists, policy makers, citizens, political scientists, and data scientists. There is also probably an opportunity for psychologists and sociologists to utilize the data generated as well.
