[1][2] Prior to founding CNalysis, Nuttycombe was involved in various political activities, tracking various primary elections in 2016, and volunteering for the gubernatorial campaign of Tom Perriello in 2017.

[3] Also in 2017, Nuttycombe began working with Decision Desk HQ and accurately predicted 96% of the seats in the Virginia House of Delegates election that year.

[3] The following year, Nuttycombe, then a political science major at Virginia Tech, launched CNalysis.

CNalysis successfully predicted a Joe Biden victory as well as 47/50 states for the Presidential election that year.

They successfully predicted that Republicans would flip the Virginia House of Delegates with a 52–48 majority, but missed 4/100 seats in the chamber, with both parties pulling off an upset in two each.

[10] In the New Jersey Senate, they successfully predicted a Democratic majority while missing 2 seats in the chamber.

[citation needed] In their state legislative forecasts, they successfully predicted 83 out of 88 state legislative chambers up that year, incorrectly predicting Republican victories in the Pennsylvania House as well as both chambers of the Michigan and Minnesota legislature.

[2][11] On election night, the website debuted a new feature built by Kersting: a live projection of who is favored to win control of the Virginia legislature as precinct results rolled in.

[13][14] For the 2024 United States presidential election, CNalysis incorrectly predicted that Kamala Harris would win by roughly 308 electoral votes with a 70% chance of victory.

[citation needed] On December 20th, 2024, the CNalysis website shut down and redirects to its successor, State Navigate.