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Chichiri

(4,667 posts)
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 06:23 PM Aug 2016

STATE OF THE ELECTION - August 2, 2016

97 Days to Election



Electoral Models (270 to win)


PEC: Clinton 324.

NYT: Clinton 328.

538 PO: Clinton 310.

538 PP: Clinton 298.

Cook: Clinton 304 (44 tossups).*

R&G: Clinton 332 (15 tossups).*

Sabato: Clinton 347.*


Win probabilities

PEC: Clinton 82%.

NYT: Clinton 74%.

538 PO: Clinton 68%.

538 PP: Clinton 66%.

PredictWise: Clinton 74%.




Recent Polls

General 2-way (YouGov): Clinton 46, Trump 43.

General 2-way (NBC): Clinton 50, Trump 42.

General 4-way (YouGov): Clinton 41, Trump 36, Johnson 8.

General 4-way (NBC): Clinton 42, Trump 38, Johnson 9.


Nevada 3-way (Rasmussen): Clinton 41, Trump 40, Johnson 10.



Comments:

Still under construction.



Methodology

Data for electoral models and probabilities is taken from Princeton Election Consortium, the New York Times, FiveThirtyEight (the polls-only model and the polls-plus model), Cook Political Report, Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report, Larry J. Sabato at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, PredictWise. Entries with an asterisk (*) have not been recently updated. Polling data is aggregated from RealClearPolitics.



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STATE OF THE ELECTION - August 2, 2016 (Original Post) Chichiri Aug 2016 OP
K&R! stonecutter357 Aug 2016 #1
That's ok, trump really doesn't want to win anyway... dubyadiprecession Aug 2016 #2
I wish I could have heard it. ailsagirl Aug 2016 #5
Simply - OHYEAH n/t OhZone Aug 2016 #3
K&R! DemonGoddess Aug 2016 #4
Thankie for doing this! Lucinda Aug 2016 #6

dubyadiprecession

(5,730 posts)
2. That's ok, trump really doesn't want to win anyway...
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 06:37 PM
Aug 2016

That was being talked about on morning joe this morning.

ailsagirl

(22,899 posts)
5. I wish I could have heard it.
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:28 PM
Aug 2016

He'll blame election fraud if he loses and will be bringing lawsuit after lawsuit for the rest of his miserable life.

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