Minnesota: DeSart & Holbrook model shows Clinton in the lead

The DeSart & Holbrook model is captured in the econometric models component of the PollyVote. The model currently predicts a two-party vote share of 53.8% for Clinton, and 46.2% for Trump in Minnesota. In comparison, on October 12, Clinton was predicted to end up with only 51.6% of the vote.

Putting the results in context

Individual models can contain large errors, and should be treated with caution. Rather, one should examine how a model's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

Results compared to the combined PollyVote forecast

The current PollyVote anticipates Clinton to gain 54.4% of the two-party vote in Minnesota. PollyVote currently predicts Clinton to gain 0.6 percentage points more compared to the results of the DeSart & Holbrook 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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