Election 2016 Forecast / Identity Politics: Youth Vote The youth vote has been a consistent voting block for the Democrats. Especially in the last two presidential elections, the youth vote clearly helped the Democrats to victory. As part of the ‘Coalition’ that elected Obama, many expect the youth vote to support Clinton […]
Age Cohort Enthusiasm
Election 2016 Forecast / Turnout and Result: Age Cohort Enthusiasm Breakdown Each candidate appears to be leading within distinct age cohorts. Generally, polls in 2016 tend to show younger age groups leaning Democrat and older age groups leaning Republican. Certainly, this trend is not that new considering the strong youth vote was […]
Fundamental Forecasts Needed
Election 2016 Problems with the Current Election Analysis: Overly Reliant on Polls and Pundits, Dearth of Actual Forecasts, Create better Forecasting Models Current election analysis is basically a two pronged approach. Pundits control the qualitative analysis and polls provide the life blood for analyst’s quantitative analysis. Unfortunately both of these approaches have […]