Category: General Analysis
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2024 Showed The Value Of Polling
Going into election night, polling suggested a close race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with surveys showing less than a half percentage point separating the two candidates in the tipping point state in Pennsylvania. The bulk of polling suggested that the race would come down to the wire, with… Read More
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Our Final Forecast
President At the presidential level, our model views this race as a tossup, with Kamala Harris as a nominal favorite (making her our pick for the presidency). We give her a 53% chance of winning, and project her to win 270 electoral votes — at the moment, the “Blue Wall”… Read More
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The Case For (And Against) A Kamala Harris Victory
With just three days to go until election day, our forecast remains that the presidency is a pure tossup, with Kamala Harris at a 53% chance to win and Donald Trump at a 47% chance to win. Harris is a nominal favorite, and so if you forced us to make… Read More
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Understanding the 2024 Early Vote
In the run-up to the 2020 Presidential Election, Donald Trump repeatedly questioned the security of early voting (particularly mail-in voting) and encouraged Republicans to vote in-person or on election day. His base, distrustful of state boards of election and concerned about interference, largely followed suit. At the same time, Democrats… Read More
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Are GOP-Leaning Pollsters Biasing The Averages? (No.)
One question we keep getting is whether Republican-leaning polls are biasing our poll averages. The criticism goes as such: since the averages are only as good as the data that goes into it, a flood of polls from GOP-leaning pollsters would meaningfully bias the polling outlook rightward. This is what… Read More
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Temperature Check (10/26): Model Wars (And Is Early Voting Predictive?)
As we enter the final stretch of the campaign, Democratic fretting about the election continues to ramp up. Multiple news articles have documented the “vibe shift,” noting that some within the party have already begun to point fingers at those they believe will be responsible for a Harris loss. These… Read More
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Temperature Check (10/19): The Signal And The Noise
Our forecast this week sees Kamala Harris’ odds tick down a notch, from 55% to 53%. Readers may note that this marks the fourth straight week of decline from her peak of 62% when the model launched, which happened fresh off a debate that Harris was widely seen as having… Read More
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Temperature Check (10/12): What’s The Point Of A Model?
Today’s analysis of our model looks remarkably similar to last week’s, as well as the week preceding that one. Our presidential model gives Kamala Harris a 55% chance of winning the election. This is almost identical to the 57% chance our model gave her over the past two weeks. The… Read More
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Temperature Check (10/05): The Potential Illusion Of Stability
In a cycle characterized recently by immense upheaval, stability is perhaps the last thing that would come to mind regarding the 2024 elections. Yet for perhaps the first time in months, that is exactly what would characterize our forecasts right now. Coalitions are largely set (in fact, FiveThirtyEight’s crosstab aggregates… Read More