Ah, I don't disagree. But there might be "hidden" location information in datasets that dont appear to have it, such as Twitter. Word choice carries regional

Ah, I don't disagree. But there might be "hidden" location information in datasets that dont appear to have it, such as Twitter. Word choice carries regional and social information. So it's conceivable Twitter data could correctly predict the election with ML techniques that essentially are estimating the electoral college without being trained on an explicit model of it.