{
  "id": 17385782,
  "title": "Nearly 90% of voters now expect their candidate to win. The math doesn’t work.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/nearly-90-of-voters-now-expect-their-candidate-to-win-the-math-doesnt",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-31T10:00:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PsyPost",
    "slug": "psypost",
    "url": "https://www.psypost.org/nearly-90-of-voters-now-expect-their-candidate-to-win-the-math-doesnt-work/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In a competitive two-party system, your side will lose about half the time. Yet nearly 90 percent of voters now expect to win, and a new study suggests growing dislike of the opposing party helps explain the gap between hopes and reality.",
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}