2016 US Presidential Election Thread 2 - Always Darkest before Don

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The lizard's back over 70% on 538. They're giving her a 3.5ish point lead.
 
Just listening to a bernie supporter she thinks maybe 10% go to trump but 30% will just abstain.
 
Not gonna lie, I love how we're a site founded on being basically a bunch of assholes but there's still more intellectual discussion here than most normal sites out there.

People have said here that if you come to Kiwi Farms for your news your retarded...well I think I'd rather be that then whatever shit most news sites are pumping out.
 
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Wait did I land in an alternate universe where trump is actually doing well? Because I swore he wasn't doing so good, looks like i'll have to apologize to the die hard trump fans.
 
The lizard's back over 70% on 538. They're giving her a 3.5ish point lead.
They're calculating in really dumb polls. One of the ones that put Florida into Lean Democrat don't factor in a ton of data and go over a week's time. A NH poll shows Clinton +11 (contrasting 4 others) and they throw that one in too.
 
Wait did I land in an alternate universe where trump is actually doing well? Because I swore he wasn't doing so good, looks like i'll have to apologize to the die hard trump fans.

The election has gone from a 1-in-6 chance for Clinton, to an absolute dead tie. Trump's chances of winning are now about as good as a coin flip. The election will be razor-close.
 
Wait did I land in an alternate universe where trump is actually doing well? Because I swore he wasn't doing so good, looks like i'll have to apologize to the die hard trump fans.

Remember when he had no chance of winning the gop nomination and all those times it was the end of his campaign? That wasn't reality. That's just what they wanted to be true.
 
The election has gone from a 1-in-6 chance for Clinton, to an absolute dead tie. Trump's chances of winning are now about as good as a coin flip. The election will be razor-close.
Well, no, it's gone from about a 1-in-6 chance for Trump to a 1-in-3 chance.
 
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They're calculating in really dumb polls. One of the ones that put Florida into Lean Democrat don't factor in a ton of data and go over a week's time. A NH poll shows Clinton +11 (contrasting 4 others) and they throw that one in too.

1) Those NH polls seem inflated but they come from a reputable source (Uni of New Hampshire: B+)
2) NH is a small state so any poll that gets over 600 is good
3) The model works by adjusting for house effect (depending on the pollsters bias) and then combines it with national polling. Because Clinton's lead has ticked up in the past few days it moved some states into her column, if only by a few percentage points. She got some more favorable state polling too.

Well, no, it's gone from about a 1-in-6 chance to a 1-in-3 chance.
tbf if we're going by 538 she's back over 70% again. Is closer to 1-in-4 now.
 
3) The model works by adjusting for house effect (depending on the pollsters bias) and then combines it with national polling. Because Clinton's lead has ticked up in the past few days it moved some states into her column, if only by a few percentage points. She got some more favorable state polling too.
They also weigh polls when calculating the average based on past accuracy and sample size after adjusting for house effects.
 
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