This is the first Model Talk column here at Silver Bulletin. Originally our plan had been to update our presidential election forecast once a week through Labor Day (and more frequently thereafter) for paying subscribers. However, we quickly realized there were two problems: 1) we were going to want to update the forecast a lot more often than once a week; 2) it was going to be awkward to bury the numbers in some sort of newsletter post instead of having a dedicated landing page for them.

So we hope this is a case of having underpromised and overdelivered. However, part of our promise was to provide paid subscribers with exclusive written columns in addition to model updates. And that’s what this is: Model Talk is the brand name…