Issues and Leaders model: Clinton is in the lead

The Issues and Leaders model is part of the index models component of the PollyVote forecast. The model currently predicts a major vote share of 52.1% for Clinton, and 47.9% for Trump.

Putting the results in context

As a general rule, however, you should not have too much faith in the results of single index models, since they sometimes contain large errors. At the very least, one should check how a index model's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

Comparison to other index models

If we look at an average of index models, Clinton's two-party vote share is currently at 53.5%. In comparison to numbers in the Issues and Leaders index model Clinton's index model average is 1.4 percentage points higher.

Results compared to the combined PollyVote forecast

The most recent PollyVote forecasts Clinton to gain 52.6% of the two-party vote. PollyVote currently predicts Clinton to gain 0.5 percentage points more compared to the results of the Issues and Leaders 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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