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2016 Postmortem

Ira

(51 posts) Tue Aug 14, 2012, 01:12 PM Aug 2012

Obama's Electoral College vote margin continues to grow.

The average of 22 online Electoral College opinion maps is currently:

Obama 255
Romney 196
Tossups 87

http://peanutgallerypolitical.blogspot.com/

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Obama's Electoral College vote margin continues to grow. (Original Post) Ira Aug 2012 OP

K&R Tarheel_Dem Aug 2012 #1

Nate Silver; greiner3 Aug 2012 #2

Next time some winger asks for the President's college scores, send them this! Scuba Aug 2012 #3

270toWin's Electoral College opinion map Piano Red Aug 2012 #4

Tarheel_Dem

(31,240 posts)

1. K&R

Reply to Ira (Original post)

Tue Aug 14, 2012, 02:16 PM

Aug 2012

greiner3

(5,214 posts)

2. Nate Silver;

Reply to Ira (Original post)

Tue Aug 14, 2012, 07:38 PM

Aug 2012

Of FiveThirtyEight fame gives Obama 301 EVs. He also gives Obama a 71.4% of winning the election.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

3. Next time some winger asks for the President's college scores, send them this!

Reply to Ira (Original post)

Wed Aug 15, 2012, 07:51 AM

Aug 2012

Piano Red

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4. 270toWin's Electoral College opinion map

Reply to Ira (Original post)

Wed Aug 15, 2012, 09:03 AM

Aug 2012

270toWin is holding a contest to see who can correctly forecast the electoral map for 2012. If you get it right you could win some prize money.

http://www.270towin.com/americas-electoral-map-contest/

BUT... What's really interesting is they're using the entered maps to produce their own forecast for the election. The prize money is suppose to keep people honest, but I don't think it's working as it looks like people are purposely trying to skew the map. Here is the resulting map from over 1,800 entries.

Obama: 297
Romney: 241

http://www.270towin.com/americas-electoral-map/

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