The presidential race is tied. Whoever has the better ground game will win the White House.

With less than a month until Election Day, neither Harris nor Trump feels confident about their chances.

Shankar Narayan
5 min readOct 14, 2024

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Sometimes, I look back on my days at the stock trading desk with dread, but other times, I appreciate the valuable lessons I learned. Higher highs. Lower lows. Ceilings at the top. Floors at the bottom.

In the end, the numbers always reveal the truth. You can hide them for a while, but not forever. As long as you’re willing to leave your biases at the door and see the numbers for what they are, more often than not, you’ll stay closer to reality.

From the start of this presidential race, I marked Wisconsin as the state to watch. Not because of its 10 electoral votes or Kamala Harris’s strategy to secure 270 electoral votes through Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, but because the state represents a microcosm of the entire country. If Harris can win Wisconsin, it means she’s able to turn out the right demographics needed to win the country and gain an edge in battleground states.

“Wisconsin’s electorate is whiter, has fewer residents with a four-year college degree, and is more rural than the rest of the country”.

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Shankar Narayan

He didn't care what he had or what he had left, he cared only about what he must do.