Washington, D.C.: DeSart model shows Clinton in the lead

The DeSart model released an updated prediction of the election outcome. It currently forecasts a two-party vote share of 91.9% for Clinton, and 8.1% for Trump in Washington, D.C..

Putting the results in context

As any other method, models are subject to bias. Thus, as a general rule, you should not be too confident the results of a single econometric model. At the very least, one should examine how a model's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

Results compared to the combined PollyVote forecast

The most recent PollyVote anticipates Clinton to gain 90.4% of the two-party vote in Washington, D.C.. PollyVote currently predicts Clinton to gain 1.5 percentage points less compared to the results of the DeSart model.

This article was automatically generated by the PollyBot, which uses algorithms developed by AX Semantics to generate text from data stored in our API. The exact dataset underlying this particular article can be found here.

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