Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Political Investors Daily Evening Report + Current Temperature + Forecast for Nov. 5

Investors moved their chips Kamala-way through the day. This evening the lucre is on her 51.7% 46.9%, her widest margin and, from memory, the widest for either candidate.

Current National Temperature

Conservative-biased RCP: Kamala cat 49.3% trumpie dog 47.3%. RCP's average violates my rule of poll interpretation that any poll or average showing trumpie with 47%+ overstates his real support.

Silver Bull: 48.9%-46.0/%. Consistent with the (Benjamin) Harris rule of interpretation.

ABC/538 current: 48.3%-45.3%. Ditto.

Silver Bull and ABC/538 have identical headlines:



November 5 Forecast

ABC/538 Popular Vote:

He's not getting 47.9! The 4.2% margin is however over the Silver Bull Rule that a D has to win the pop. vote by ~3.5 to win in the EC.

Their forecast calls for blue wins in every swing:

319 EVs, not a drenching that would cause a landslide but a thorough soaking still.