West Virginia: Crosstab model shows Trump in the lead

The Crosstab model published an updated forecast of the election outcome. According to the model, Clinton will obtain 33.4% of the two-party vote share in West Virginia, whereas Trump will end up with 66.6%. In comparison, on October 30, Clinton was predicted to gain 33.5% of the vote.

Putting the results in context

Single models should be regarded with caution, because they may include substantial errors. At the very least, one should check how a model's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

Results compared to the combined PollyVote prediction

The most recent PollyVote expects Trump to gain 62.4% of the two-party vote in West Virginia. The results of the Crosstab model for Trump are thus 4.2 percentage points above the combined PollyVote in West Virginia.

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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