Your Final Projections

I agreee the Fox guys look sad.

CNN is saying exit polls put NC at a tie.
 
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Yep, a copy of fivethirtyeight's chart. That's my projection.
 
All evidence shows this is going down to the wire in the key battleground states. You on the other hand are doing exactly what you proclaim they are. Pretending that the evidence shows anything but a nail biter.

The chance of either candidate winning this election ~= the chance they'll win Ohio.

Obama's been consistently ahead in the polls in Ohio for the past few days. Since an average of polls has a lower effective margin of error than a single poll, there's something like a 99% chance that this lead in the poll average represents an actual lead. The only reason Fivethirtyeight even gives the state only a 90.6% chance of going to Obama is because they're hedging there bets and trying to take into account the possibility that the polls are all off the mark. However, that's a pretty desperate hope to cling to.

If Obama wins Ohio, then Romney has several other courses. They are below, along with the respective Fivethirtyeight probability of Romney winning each state, and also a calculation of the overall probability of the scenario occurring, using the fact that the probability of several events occurring in a row = the probability of each multiplied together:

1) Florida (49.7%) * NC (74.4%) * Wisconsin (3.3%) * Colorado (20.5%) * Iowa (15.7%) * Nevada (6.6%) * New Hampshire (15.4%) = a 4e-6% (using scientific notation), or
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chance
2) Same as 1) with Virginia (20.6%) rather than Wisconsin = a 1.6e-4%, or
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3) Florida (50.3%) * NC (74.4%) * Virginia (20.6%) * Wisconsin (3.3%) * Iowa (15.7%) * Nevada (6.6%) = a 2.6e-5%, or
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4) Florida (50.3%) * NC (74.4%) * Virginia (20.6%) * Wisconsin (3.3%) * Colorado (20.5%) * New Hampshire (15.4%) = a 1.5e-4%, or
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5) Same 4) but with Nevada (6.6%) instead of NH = a 6.8e-5%, or
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6) Same 4) but with Iowa (15.7%) instead of NH = a 1.6e-4%, or
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Altogether, there is about a 5.7e-4%, or
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chance of any of these occurring.



I'd stick to Ohio.
 
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I would agree with the above with the exception of CO.

We have had 1.7mm of 2.7mm already vote. Reps have turned in about 50k more ballots thus far and Independents are leaning towards Romney. I don't think Obama is going to be able to make up the ground to win here. Obviously this hinges on the Independents leaning Romney part, but the early Rep lead over Dems straight up is a bad sign for Obama.

Independents are leaning towards Romney because more Republicans are identifying themselves as "independent".
 
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