And even more good news from Yahoo News!
Let’s have the Election today, before anything goes wrong…
I never under estimate the Democratic Party’s talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by doing something incredibly stupid….
For reference, see the 2010 Elections and how they embraced deficit reduction instead of a larger economic stimulus, screwed up the messaging on the Economic collapse and blew the chance to launch a new New Deal….
With fewer than nine months to go before Election Day, The Signal predicts that Barack Obama will win the presidential contest with 303 electoral votes to the Republican nominee’s 235.
How do we know? We don’t, of course. Campaigns and candidates evolve, and elections are dynamic events with more variables than can reasonably be distilled in an equation. But the data–based on a prediction engine created by Yahoo! scientists–suggest a second term is likely for the current president. This model does not use polls or prediction markets to directly gauge what voters are thinking. Instead, it forecasts the results of the Electoral College based on past elections, economic indicators, measures of state ideology, presidential approval ratings, incumbency, and a few other politically agnostic factors.
Lost in the 21st Century 