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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 01:08 PM Nov 2016

VoteCastr's latest election data from 8 swing states - 11:36 a.m. E.T.

The latest election data from 8 swing states

Updated: 11:36 a.m. E.T.

What the latest data means: VoteCastr’s model is designed, in part, to project turnout totals for every state, and with the prevalence of early voting, they estimate that some battlegrounds already have nearly half of the vote in.

When the dust settles, more than 30 percent of voters are expected to have cast their ballots early this year, and VoteCastr has already analyzed the numbers in several battleground states like Ohio, Nevada, Florida, and Iowa.

In Nevada, VoteCastr’s model estimates that 46.2 percent of votes have already been cast, and among those votes, Clinton holds a narrow 1.5 percent lead. Iowa’s heavily white population and polling led many observers to predict that Trump would carry the state, but VoteCastr’s model shows Clinton taking a surprisingly strong lead in the early vote.

As for Florida, Trump likely needs its 29 electoral votes to secure his path to the presidency. With nearly half of the projected vote already in the state’s still very much up in the air. Votecastr’s data estimates that Trump is currently behind by three points in the hotly contested state.

— Alex Thompson

Colorado:

59.8 percent of expected total voters
Clinton: 46.3
Trump: 43.6

Iowa:

33.3 percent of expected total voters
Clinton: 48.5
Trump: 43.5

Wisconsin:

24.7 percent of expected total voters
Clinton: 52.7
Trump: 40.3

Nevada:

46.2 percent of expected total voters
Clinton: 46.7
Trump: 45.2

Ohio:

22.7 percent of expected total voters
Clinton: 47.9
Trump: 43.9

Florida:

52.4 percent of expected total voters
Clinton: 48.6
Trump: 45.2

Early voting data from Colorado

The data:

Clinton: 46 percent
Trump: 44 percent

What it means: Colorado allows voters to mail in their ballots early, which gives us some early voting data to analyze. Considering the 1.53 million total votes thus far, the VoteCastr model projects that Clinton is leading Trump 46 percent to 44 percent.

— Noah Kulwin

https://news.vice.com/story/live-election-day-turnout-results-with-votecastry?cl=fp

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VoteCastr's latest election data from 8 swing states - 11:36 a.m. E.T. (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2016 OP
Not sure this means anything this early Democat Nov 2016 #1
So far so good! fun n serious Nov 2016 #2
note: these aren't actual vote totals or even exit poll question data.... getagrip_already Nov 2016 #3
Tighter than I expected in CO Roland99 Nov 2016 #7
Stunningly narrow margins for running against a doofus a'hole. What is wrong with people? JudyM Nov 2016 #8
Wait until there are actual results. This is behavior modeling and we do not know how they model Mass Nov 2016 #10
So vadermike Nov 2016 #11
This vadermike Nov 2016 #9
I share Nate Silver's philosophy of not putting too much faith in early voting, however Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2016 #14
Dec 1969 #

getagrip_already

(14,764 posts)
3. note: these aren't actual vote totals or even exit poll question data....
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 01:15 PM
Nov 2016

These are percentages of voters that are likely to vote for each candidate. They find out who voted, then find their address, then assign them to a "likely" voter pool based on factors like party registration, etc.

Fun data. But it will shift towards trump as the data comes in (in person voting vs early voting). And, it can be very WRONG. For example, it doesn't detect if red woman break for clinton or blue men break for trump.

JudyM

(29,251 posts)
8. Stunningly narrow margins for running against a doofus a'hole. What is wrong with people?
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 01:26 PM
Nov 2016

Then I think: they all re-elected shrub.

Mass

(27,315 posts)
10. Wait until there are actual results. This is behavior modeling and we do not know how they model
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 01:39 PM
Nov 2016

behavior for groups who may be reacting differently to a candidate than to the average R or D (Republican women, Minorities, ...)

vadermike

(1,415 posts)
11. So
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 01:39 PM
Nov 2016

We probably shouldn't look at this and wait to see what the networks see later tonite in exits I would assume

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)
14. I share Nate Silver's philosophy of not putting too much faith in early voting, however
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 01:43 PM
Nov 2016

..if those numbers are to be believed, they are very encouraging.

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