Democrats State of election markets: 191 Days PredictWise’s market-based forecasts have Donald Trump 89% to be the Republican nominee for president of the United States of America, Hillary Clinton is 98% to be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States of America, and the Democratic nominee for
Democrats State of election markets: 198 Days PredictWise’s market-based forecasts have Donald Trump 76% to be the Republican nominee for president of the United States of America, Hillary Clinton is 96% to be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States of America, and the Democratic nominee for
Democrats GOP Races Narrowing It has certainly been a meaningful eight days in the Republican primary. Ted Cruz smashed Donald Trump in Wisconsin’s April 5 primary, and his probability of victory certainly jumped up and Trump’s went down. Seven days later Trump is right
Democrats State of election markets: 211 Days Donald Trump lost badly in Wisconsin (as expected), but he is still the most likely Republican nominee, at 55%. He may win on the first ballot with enough delegates (40% likely Trump wins on first ballot). He is still favored in NY, CT, DE,
Democrats State of election markets: 226 Days A quick look at the week that was … Donald Trump got a boost from his strong March 22 showing in Arizona and Ted Cruz stayed competitive with a strong showing in Utah. John Kasich continues onward, but increasingly marginalized by Trump and Cruz.
Democrats State of election markets: 233 Days A quick look at the week that was … Donald Trump got a boost from his strong March 15 showing. He won 4 out of 5 and that 5th state, Ohio, kept John Kasich in the game. Vertical Lines: Major Election Days: Saturday, March
Democrats Naive Conditional Probability There are a linty of reasons why you cannot just divide the probability of victory in the general election by the probability of victory in the primary and get the conditional probability of candidate winning the general elections on their nomination. First, these values
Democrats March 15 Primary Elections Updating predictions … Here is the state of the March 15 election day as of March 13 at 5 PM ET … Trump is favored in 4 of 5 on Tuesday, 3/15. A little more detail: 1) Florida: 80% for Trump, 12% for
Democrats Michigan Democrat Primary Hillary Clinton was favored to win the Michigan primary. She lost. She was 90% on PredictWise and >99% on FiveThirtyEight. At the same time Clinton was favored to win the Mississippi primary at 99%. Michigan and Mississippi had about the same polling average.
Democrats State of election markets: 247 Days Donald Trump dropped from highly likely to likely this week on the strength of (1) Mitt Romney openly pushing to a brokered convention and (2) his surprising loss in Maine (coupled with closer than expected wins in Kentucky and Louisiana). Trump is still heavily
Democrats State of election markets: 268 Days With the Republican field down to just legitimate five candidates (and Ben Carson), Donald Trump continues to hold the top slot. The Democratic side saw very little movement over the last week, despite a dominant win by Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire. The outside
Democrats New Hampshire Recap New Hampshire happened exactly as expected with Donald Trump and John Kasich finishing first and second in the Republican primary and Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic primary. The only suspense and surprise came in the strength of Kasich’s finish and the order
Democrats State of election markets: 275 Days An interesting and meaningful week saw Donald Trump fall after his results in Iowa and then gain after his results in New Hampshire (debate that is). Marco Rubio, after his strong third in Iowa, once again failed to capitalize on his moment by collapsing
Democrats Iowas Caucus Night This table will update every 5 minutes all night … [table table-id=1612] [table table-id=1613] 11:23 PM ET: Markets now at 98% for Clinton to (barely) carry IA 11:11 PM ET: Trump is still favored in NH for GOP, but Rubio
Democrats State of election markets: 282 Days A quick look at the Republican and Democratic nomination markets over the last two weeks heading into the first votes in Iowa. One thing is certain, both of these charts are going to see a lot of movement in about 24 hours. With neither
Democrats State of election markets: 289 Days With the Iowa Caucuses fast approaching we saw a lot of movement this week on the Republican side. First, Donald Trump is starting to pull away from his primary rival Ted Cruz in the race for the non-establishment vote. Second, Marco Rubio had has
Democrats State of election markets: 296 Days As we enter the home stretch of the 2016 presidential election, with actually voting just 15 days away, both nomination contests experienced meaningful movement this week. On the GOP side there was a debate on Thursday, January 14 where Donald Trump and Ted Cruz
Democrats State of election markets: 303 Days In just a few more weeks, after just 200+ days of serious campaigning, the first votes of the 2016 election will be cast in Iowa for both the Republican and Democratic Caucus. The Republican Iowa favorite, Ted Cruz, is jockeying with his good friend
Democrats Historical Conditional Probability I wrote a post on November 29, 2015 on how difficult it is to determine conditional probabilities for candidates to win the general election, should they get their party’s nomination. The key issues are: (1) there is a range of possible conditional
Democrats State of election markets: 310 Days Welcome to 2016! The Republican primary was reasonably quiet again this week, as we finally entered the actual year of 2016. Polling front-runner Donald Trump continued to vow that he would invest more money into television advertisement. Market front-runner Marco Rubio managed to stay
Democrats State of election markets: 317 Days Pretty quiet Christmas week. Rubio continued his silence. Trump was silent for a change. Christie started to get battered a little, as people started to take him seriously. Cruz made sure everyone knows how much he loves Trump! Bush hangs on, while Carson is
Democrats State of election markets: 324 Days There was some meaningful movement in the Republican primary this week as (market) front-runner Marco Rubio failed to consolidate support for yet another week and (market) second-place Ted Cruz continued to gain in the polls Iowa, the crucial test of the non-establishment. Meanwhile, Republican
Democrats State of election markets: 331 Days The main outline of the GOP primary was stable this week; the establishment (Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie) is 60% to win and the non-establishment (Ted Cruz and Donald Trump) is 40%. But, there was an interesting shift within the non-establishment derby
Democrats State of election markets: 338 Days The Republican nomination is still in the semi-finals with the establishment bracket still being led by Marco Rubio (4th in the polls) and the non-establishment bracket still being led by
Democrats Conditional Probabilities are Hard to Determine One tempting thing to do with market-based probabilities of victory is to determine the conditional probability of candidate winning the general election; simply divide the probability of victory of getting the nomination by the probability of winning the general election! But, there are two