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
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%
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).