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pnwmom

(108,950 posts)
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 08:19 PM Sep 2016

NYTimes The Upshot: Hillary has a 75% chance of winning.

Last edited Tue Sep 20, 2016, 09:17 PM - Edit history (1)

And Sam Wang's Princeton Election Consortium estimates it as 81%, with a 64% chance of controlling the Senate.

We need to work hard, but let's not panic about another aggregator's estimate.

GO, DEMOCRATS!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html

The Upshot’s elections model suggests that Hillary Clinton is favored to win the presidency, based on the latest state and national polls. A victory by Mr. Trump remains quite possible: Mrs. Clinton’s chance of losing is about the same as the probability that an N.F.L. kicker misses a 45-yard field goal.

The New York Times is one of many news organizations to publish election ratings or forecasts. Some, like FiveThirtyEight or the Princeton Election Consortium, use statistical models, as The Times does; others, like the Cook Political Report, rely on reporting and knowledgeable experts’ opinions. PredictWise uses information from betting markets.

We compile and standardize these ratings every day into one scoreboard for comparison. First, every organization’s estimate for who will win the presidency:

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http://election.princeton.edu

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NYTimes The Upshot: Hillary has a 75% chance of winning. (Original Post) pnwmom Sep 2016 OP
Thank you, yes, and on the same page take a look at asiliveandbreathe Sep 2016 #1
I Finally Got Off My Backside And Started Volunteering Vogon_Glory Sep 2016 #2
Yay! Thanks! n/t pnwmom Sep 2016 #7
I love how they continually translate percentages into... jcgoldie Sep 2016 #3
What's their track record leebaba1992 Sep 2016 #4
Nate Cohn replaced Nate Silver at NYT last year Godhumor Sep 2016 #6
Thanks! Too much 538 chatter this evening. LAS14 Sep 2016 #5
This is quite reassuring Farmgirl1961 Sep 2016 #8

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
1. Thank you, yes, and on the same page take a look at
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 08:31 PM
Sep 2016

the article 2016 election - who will be president..there is a chart that demonstrates where the race has shifted....excellent info - be well

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fupshot

Vogon_Glory

(9,109 posts)
2. I Finally Got Off My Backside And Started Volunteering
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 08:33 PM
Sep 2016

I finally got off my backside and started volunteering. I did my first round of phone-banking this evening.

jcgoldie

(11,603 posts)
3. I love how they continually translate percentages into...
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 08:34 PM
Sep 2016

... the odds of NFL kickers making field goals from different places on the field for the math illiterates who have been couch potatoes every Sunday for life.

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