2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumVoteCastr's latest election data from 8 swing states - 11:36 a.m. E.T.
Updated: 11:36 a.m. E.T.
What the latest data means: VoteCastrs 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, VoteCastrs model estimates that 46.2 percent of votes have already been cast, and among those votes, Clinton holds a narrow 1.5 percent lead. Iowas heavily white population and polling led many observers to predict that Trump would carry the state, but VoteCastrs 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 states still very much up in the air. Votecastrs 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
Democat
(11,617 posts)But better to be ahead than behind.
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)getagrip_already
(14,764 posts)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.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)JudyM
(29,251 posts)Then I think: they all re-elected shrub.
Mass
(27,315 posts)behavior for groups who may be reacting differently to a candidate than to the average R or D (Republican women, Minorities, ...)
We probably shouldn't look at this and wait to see what the networks see later tonite in exits I would assume
vadermike
(1,415 posts)Vote caster is inaccurate I would assume Even the method they use is a rough guess
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)..if those numbers are to be believed, they are very encouraging.