Election Prediction Based On Primary
Updated three times daily this map tracks the electoral vote count for the 2020 presidential election based on polling.
Election prediction based on primary. Use the timeline feature to view the map based on the final update each day. That suggests his best hope for re election might be to once again assemble an electoral college majority without winning the popular vote. On august 11 the day of the harris vp announcement mr biden s chances jumped by 2 percentage points while trump s dropped by 2.
Primary election results and the popularity of candidates. Primary model predicts trump re election by helmut norpoth. Lichtman 2008 2020 presents an election model that relies on thirteen binary predictors.
The primary model gives president donald trump a 91 chance of winning re election in a matchup against democrat joe biden. Ratings from senior elections editor steve shepard for every national contest from the 538 electoral college votes to the 435 house districts. The election prediction model is based on primary performances in new hampshire and south carolina while taking into account the first term electoral benefit that the party in power has enjoyed in the last 200 years of american election history professor norpoth says in the blog.
Weights are given based on the poll s date meaning the number of days until the election as well as to the pollster s rating which is available publicly from fivethirtyeight. A linear decay. Trump is predicted to get 362 electoral votes biden 176.
The primary model gives president trump a 91 chance of winning a possible match up with democrat joe biden in november based on primary performance in new hampshire and south carolina plus the first term electoral benefit. Primaries predict election winner cycle also favors gop forecast model batting 5 for 6 since 1996 by helmut norpoth. The latest from politico s 2020 election forecast.
The predictors called keys to the white house relate to general economic political party and candidate characteristics all factors that can be observed well in advance of an election. The 2016 election margin rounded to the nearest 1 is used where there are no polls.