Obama poised to win 2012 election with 303 electoral votes: The Signal Forecast

Yahoo News ^ | David Rothschild & Chris Wilson

[OddLane]

With fewer than nine months to go before Election Day, The Signal predicts that Barack Obama will win the presidential contest with 303 electoral votes to the Republican nominee's 235.

How do we know? We don't, of course. Campaigns and candidates evolve, and elections are dynamic events with more variables than can reasonably be distilled in an equation. But the data--based on a prediction engine created by Yahoo! scientists--suggest a second term is likely for the current president. This model does not use polls or prediction markets to directly gauge what voters are thinking. Instead, it forecasts the results of the Electoral College based on past elections, economic indicators, measures of state ideology, presidential approval ratings, incumbency, and a few other politically agnostic factors.

[struggle]

That’s why all the democrat candidates are fundraising with him, right? RIGHT?

[prov1813man]

Sorry to say, we don’t have a Reagan

[OddLane]

That is the funniest part of this article, isn't it?

I don't know why, but I keep picturing a guy who resembles a young Jerry Lewis peering over a bunsen burner.

[RedMDer]

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