Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Election Update: 8/2/16

Okay, I know I just did one of these yesterday, but it looks like a whole lot of new data came out today that made yesterday's projections irrelevant so that was my bad for jumping the gun and not waiting for more changes in data to begin with. I'm just going to make some modifications here.

Aggregate polling

Clinton - 46.4%, Trump - 42.0% (4.4% Clinton)

Clinton keeps surging ahead post convention and is now up 4 points over Trump. This is looking worse and worse every day.

Aggregate polling with third party candidates

Clinton- 42.2%, Trump- 37.8%, Johnson- 7.4%, Stein- 3.2% (4.4% Clinton)

She's gone up a lot in recent polls and again, just as my article last week indicated, third parties are "taking" from both candidates equally.

Electoral College

No changes from yesterday in methodology. Just data.

Arizona - 0.5% Clinton (no change)

Florida - 0.3% Trump (no change)

Georgia - 4.0% Trump (down from 4.5%)

Iowa - 0.5% Clinton (no change)

Kentucky - 3.0% Clinton (no change)

Michigan - 5.2% Clinton (no change)

Mississippi - 3.0% Trump

Missouri - 6.3% Trump

Nevada - 2.5% Clinton (flipped from 0.5% Trump)

New Hampshire - 3.7% Clinton (no change)

North Carolina - 2.0% Clinton (no change)

Ohio - 0.8% Clinton (no change)

Oregon - 4.5% Clinton (no change)

Pennsylvania - 5.0% Clinton (up from 4.4%)

Texas - 5.0% Trump

Virginia - 5.3% Clinton (no change)

Wisconsin - 5.6% Clinton (no change)

Maine CD2 - 1% Trump (no change)

Election Scenarios

 These new changes do make some differences in the electoral college level

Most likely scenario with toss ups - 301-172 Clinton

Most likely scenario (best guess) - 336-202 Clinton

All toss ups Clinton (Clinton + 1) - 366-172 Clinton

Clinton + 2 -  366-172 Clinton

Clinton + 3 - 372-166 Clinton

Clinton + 4 - 388-150 Clinton

Clinton + 5 - 426-112 Clinton

All toss ups Trump (Trump + 1) - 301-237 Clinton

Trump + 2 - 286-252 Clinton

Trump + 3 - 272-266 Clinton

Trump + 4 - 268-270 Trump

Trump + 5 -  241-297 Trump

Trump + 6 - 202-336 Trump

All things considered, Nevada shifting to being more pro Clinton helped secure that state's lead. Trump also saw some erosion in Georgia, where Clinton now gets that in the +4 scenario. Pennsylvania now being +5 doesnt change the scenario much since I basically still flip the states on even numbers, but if it gets any stronger for Clinton, it's going to basically be as good of a stronghold as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Virginia are right now.

Conclusion

All in all, this is not good for Trump and he looks like he is going to lose big. He's losing support like crazy and his already low chances are becoming more distant by the day. It could be the only reason Trump gained at all was because of his convention and the democrats having a really bad week, and that trend is now reversing itself and regressing to the mean. 

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