Crosstab model in South Dakota: Trump is in the lead

The Crosstab model is captured in the econometric models component of the combined PollyVote forecast. It currently predicts a major vote share of 37.9% for Clinton, and 62.1% for Trump in South Dakota.

Putting the results in context

As any other method, models are subject to bias. As a result, one should not have too much faith in the results of an individual econometric model. At the very least, one should check how a model's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

Comparison to the combined PollyVote

The current PollyVote expects Trump to gain 60.0% of the two-party vote in South Dakota. PollyVote currently predicts Trump to gain 2.1 percentage points less compared to the results of the Crosstab 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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