He goes from an 84% chance to win down to a 70% chance. Changing the state from Likely Biden to Lean Biden.
The worst number for Trump here is #Minnesota in my opinion. The polls before this showed Biden +6.2%. This is significantly better and bumps him up to +6.8%
Biden actually gains a little in our model, moving from a 66% chance to win up to a 70% chance. He's +4.8% in the polling average.
This #Wisconsin number is closer than other polls are showing and frankly much closer than I was expecting. There's so many polls from WI lately it doesn't effect the model much:
A new National @foxnewspoll (A-) poll with Biden +5 (2 points closer than last month).
A few tidbits in the cross-tabs:
- Biden's +9 with 65+ voters
- Trump's +9 with 45-64 voters
- Undecideds / 3rd party is at 3%
- Trump's gained 3 points in his favorability (Biden's gained 1)
- Trump's job approval is +4 since last month
- 48% plan to vote early
- 64% support mail-in ballots
- But 43% aren't confident they'll be counted accurately
- Only 30% think we'll know the winner on election night
- 62% are comfortable with the result even if it takes days
- 70% think COVID is only somewhat or not at all under control
- Biden leads Trump on every measure except the economy (Trump +5)
- Outlooks on the economy are the most positive since Jan
1) Weight polls with multiple numbers properly (likely vs registered voters, etc) 2) Increased the testing range in simulations (especially further out from the election)
The old model had Biden at a 96% chance to win, he's now at 92%
For problem #1, it was something we hadn't dealt with originally that we wanted to fix.
For problem #2, we just decided this election is probably more unpredictable than past ones and wanted to account for that unpredictability more.
And we know, changing a model midway through an election isn't always proper (and we understand why).
But we wanted to match the moment a little better and allow for bigger election result swings as voting this year will likely be very different (and sure to have some issues).
A whole slew of polls from @sprystrategies out this afternoon. Most of them are quite interesting to say the least.
Some highlights:
Trump +4.2 in Michigan
Biden +1.6 in Iowa
Trump +0.7 in Pennsylvania
Biden +4.8 in Arizona
Biden's chances overall drop 1.2% to 92.4% overall.
By far the most outlier poll is Michigan (Trump +4.2). Before this Biden was up 7.7% in the Michigan polling average. This would be a 12.7% swing if it's right.