Precious Metals
The 2020 Presidential election nowcast: polling trends favorable to Biden continue
The 2020 Presidential election nowcast: polling trends favorable to Biden continue

Let me begin with a reminder that polls are really only nowcasts, not forecasts. There is nothing inherent in their current lean which tells you they will remain in the same category in early November. Which is why I take issue somewhat with the following tweets by forecaster Harry Enten:
This past week Prof. Allan Lichtman, who predicted Trump would win in 2016, predicted that Biden will win the election this year, based on his 13 “keys.”
Last week I noted that Trump’s approval was reverting to the mean, as were the Presidential polls. The former trend is continuing; the latter is not.
Here is Nate Silver’s Trump approval vs. disapproval graph:
After languishing at 40%, equivalent to the worst levels of his Presidency, Trump’s partisans have come back to approving him, as they always have for the past four years.
But this has not been reflected in the Presidential polling updated through this week. To refresh, here is how the below map works:
– States where the race is closer than 3% are shown as toss-ups.
– States where the range is between 3% to 5% are light colors.
– States where the range is between 5% and 10% are medium colors.
– States where the candidate is leading by 10% plus are dark colors.
Here is the updated map through August 8:
The only significant improvement for Trump is in Maine’s 2nd Congressional district, which goes from “lean Biden” to toss-up. Several deep red “solid Trump” States, notably Montana and Kansas, have lightened to “likely Trump.” More notably, Iowa has moved back to toss-up from “lean Trump,” and maybe more importantly, despite heavy polling, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, and even Texas remain in the toss-up category – and Florida remains firmly in the “lean Biden” category.
There are a few States where I have had to rely on older polling, and really need to be updated, notably Nevada, Arkansas, and West Virginia.
As it has indicated for the past month, per the current map Biden just has to win the “solid” and “likely” States, and need not win any of the “lean Biden” States, in order to win the election.
I continue to be of the opinion that Trump has 4 weeks left – until Labor Day – to work a miracle with the coronavirus pandemic. If it is about where it is now, then the economic fundamentals + the casualties from the pandemic indicate that Biden will win the popular vote in November, although the race seems likely to tighten somewhat, because the short leading economic indicators have been suggesting the economy will improve somewhat.

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