PollyVote Project

Polly the parrot uses the high-profile application of election forecasting to demonstrate advances in forecasting methodology.

Her focus is on the principle of combining by averaging forecasts from different component methods. This approach has lead to highly accurate forecasts for the past five U.S. presidential elections (Graefe et al. 2011).

Polly's caretakers are Scott ArmstrongAlfred CuzanAndreas Graefe and Randall Jones.

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Forecasting elections from the single most important issue
Written by Andreas Graefe   
Thursday, 20 May 2010 10:55

Andreas Graefe and Scott Armstrong developed a model for forecasting U.S. Presidential Elections. It provides fast advice on which issues candidates should focus on in their campaign by using information about how voters perceive the candidates’ ability to handle the single most important issue facing the country. It predicted the winner of the past ten elections with an accuracy of 97% (based on an examination of the forecasts on each of the last 100 days prior to each of the last ten U.S. Presidential elections). A working paper version of the paper, which was accepted for publication in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, is available here.

 

PollyVote 2012

 
Today's forecast of the
popular two-party vote


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PollyPrimaries 2012

 
Today's forecast of the
2012 Republican
presidential nominee
(Ranks of top 3 candidates)


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about this forecast.

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