Thursday, November 10, 2011

Obama Back to Even With "Generic" Republican Candidate

Obama Back to Even With "Generic" Republican Candidate. 


Here's a prediction that the election will be close one way or another, here's another saying he has a good chance of being re-elected.

The later prediction is based on a formula cal;led the "Time for Change" model:

The Time-for-Change model is based on three predictors: the growth rate of the economy in the second quarter of the election year (Q2GDP), the president’s net approval rating in late June or early July of the election year (JUNEAPP) and the time-for-change factor (CHANGE), which takes on the value of zero if the president’s party has been in office for one term and one if the president’s party has been in office for two or more terms. The model predicts the incumbent party’s share of the major party vote (PV).