It has only been a few days since the last Electoral College update but there have already been polls added for Ohio, Indiana, California, Florida and Minnesota. A couple of these made differences to the ElectionGraphs.com models, so lets take a look…
Clinton vs Trump
Minnesota has been lightly polled. The average still is padded with the 2012 election results. But with this addition, Clinton’s lead is now 5.5%, which puts the state out of the “Weak Clinton” category and into “Strong Clinton”. For the ElectionGraphs.com model that means for now we now assume that even in a very favorable case, Trump will not win Minnesota.
In the last update Trump’s best case was already an electoral college tie. So, with Minnesota out of the picture…
So yes. Trump’s best case… winning all the states where he leads in the polls, plus all the states where Clinton leads by less than 5%, is now to lose to Clinton by 20 electoral votes.
Now, it is important to mention that even though I call this Trump’s “best case”, it is the best case as of right now, with the polls we have today. It is May. We have months to go before the general election. A lot can change. So this doesn’t mean Trump can’t win. It just means that if today’s polling averages held, he couldn’t win.
The tipping point (the percentage you would have to move all the state polls to flip the winner) also moved toward Clinton:
All this together means that Trump is now very far behind Clinton. She has the clear advantage. A big advantage. Trump has a lot of work to do if he wants to catch up and be in a winning position by November. It is not impossible, but it will require changing a lot of minds.
Clinton vs Cruz
Oh yeah, Cruz is still in it too Cruz was still in it when this last batch of polls was taken, and he did badly as well. The latest poll in Florida didn’t change the categorization of Florida, but since Florida was the tipping point state it moved the tipping point:
Given the state of the nomination races though any combination other than Clinton vs Trump appears to be completely academic now, absent some catastrophic unexpected event.
188.8 days until polls close on election day 2016.
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It makes me sick to think that she and Bill will likely live in the white house longer than anyone else in history. 16 years!
You’re assuming two terms. Things could be very different by 2020. Of course, depending how things play out in 2016, 2020 might look better for the R’s… or much worse. My prediction going back to the week after the 2012 election was that Clinton would win in 2016, but would be a one term president. But the disaster that has played out over the last year on the R side makes me think maybe her chances in 2020 will actually be very good. So maybe you are right on two terms…
But 4 years is a long time, and a lot can happen. For that matter, six months is a long time and a lot can happen. President Trump seems very unlikely right now, but it is not impossible.
Scott Adams may still be right.
It will be very interesting to see how successful… or not… Trump is with a pivot to the general election.
I look forward to your analysis over that time period. :-)
:-)