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applegrove

(118,737 posts)
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 10:31 PM Sep 2012

"Nate Silver: Obama has a 71.6 % Chance of Winning the Election" by leftreborn at the Daily Kos

Nate Silver: Obama has a 71.6 % Chance of Winning the Election

by leftreborn at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/31/1126198/-Nate-Silver-Obama-has-a-71-6-Chance-of-Winning-the-Election

"SNIP...........................................

July 29 – Aug. 9: The Romney in Israel/You People bounce. Obama’s chance of winning rose from 66.4% to 73.3%.
• August 12 – August 22: The Ryan Bounce sent the President’s chance of winning into a temporary downtrend from 73.6% to 66.7%.
• August 22 – today: The Todd Akin Backlash Bounce. The President’s chance of winning rose from 66.7% to 71.6% which is where it stands today.


As of August 30, 2012, President Obama has a better than 51% chance of winning in the following 26 states plus DC.

..........................................SNIP"
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"Nate Silver: Obama has a 71.6 % Chance of Winning the Election" by leftreborn at the Daily Kos (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2012 OP
My current prediction for Electoral College Panasonic Sep 2012 #1
From your lips to God's ears. nt SunSeeker Sep 2012 #2
Oh man that would be wonderful. applegrove Sep 2012 #3
As they say in England flamingdem Sep 2012 #4
I think that's entirely too optimistic davidpdx Sep 2012 #7
It's 73.1% on 9-1-2012 Gore1FL Sep 2012 #5
LOL! applegrove Sep 2012 #6
74.5% now! n/t Gore1FL Sep 2012 #8
Link: RedSpartan Sep 2012 #9
 

Panasonic

(2,921 posts)
1. My current prediction for Electoral College
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 10:31 PM
Sep 2012

419-115 favoring Obama.

IN and AZ goes blue and ejects their batshittery and order the entire previous administration held for trial for treason and sedition.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
7. I think that's entirely too optimistic
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 12:09 AM
Sep 2012

Arizona won't flip, though there's the potential for it being close given someone isn't on the ticket from that state. Indiana is going to flip back to red as is North Carolina most likely. If the rest of the map stayed the same (minus the 1 EV in Nebraska) that would put him at 332. My strong feeling is that is the 332 is baseline to go from. I believe we will hold Colorado, NH, and Virginia. The media has made a big deal about Iowa, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania being swing states which I think they are wrong about. Ohio and Florida are the ones that are contentious and I still think we will pull those off both, but there's always a small chance we'll lose one. The one state that I think could tip toward us is Missouri. We lost it last time by a small margin. The whole thing with Akin and his big mouth may cost the them state in the presidential election.

To put a an exact number down right now is too difficult unless you are Nate Silver who's looking at detailed numbers everyday.

I think 303 to 356 is about the range it will be (that does allow room for NC to stay blue and/or Missouri to flip). The win won't be as big as 2008, but it will be a win.

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