Not exact matches
Perhaps this is not the time to be
making predictions, after the most genuinely unpredictable
election in living memory, but I think the referendum will happen and that Cameron is likely to win it.
Not - so - bold
prediction: online ads, online recruiting, online messaging, online mobilization and online fundraising can (and will)
make a difference in
elections for the Senate, Congress and state and local offices in 2012.
Using the same data a logit regression model improves the predictive power of local
elections to tell us who will win the most votes at the next general
election,
making correct
predictions 86.21 % of the time.
My official
prediction using my Final
Election Model is that the Conservatives will
make a net gain of 45 seats resulting in a working majority of 105 seats.
Keep track people I have
made some
predictions as to where TPS would go for the
election and so far they are doing as predicted.
One
prediction about the media's
election can be
made with complete confidence: the argument about malign media influence working against Labour will revive.
Prior to the November 4 council
elections,
predictions were
made that the PDP will sweep the polls, overwhelmingly.
In 2016, we examined both the previous midterm of 2014 and presidential
elections of 2012 and 2008 in order to
make more educated
predictions regarding congressional races.
In the case of the US
election it's got to be one of two people who wins so
making a
prediction is as easy as flipping a coin.
I stopped
making predictions after 2008, when I was certain Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton would face off in the presidential general
election.
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has warned politicians to stop
making predictions about which party would be given the mandate to rule Nigeria ahead of the 2019 general
election.
«As you know,» he said, «I don't
make predictions about
elections.
Ukip have gained almost 100 seats so far - already exceeding one
prediction made by
election experts - and they seem to have gained almost a quarter of the projected national share of the vote.
Asked about the result, press secretary Jay Carney said, «Special
elections are often unique and their outcomes don't tell you very much about future regularly scheduled
elections... You can
make those
predictions and look foolish in 14 months or not, I'm simply saying we do not view them that way [as a referendum].»
Reynolds tried to steer away from
making specific
predictions about how many seats his party would gain or lose come November, promising only that Republicans would retain the majority in the midterm
elections.
June 26, 2017 • Pundits and prognosticators
make predictions all the time: about everything from
elections, to sports, to global affairs.
Making choices in the face of doubt is hardly unusual — we routinely contend with projected weather forecasts, financial
predictions, medical diagnoses, and
election polls.
As for the charge of cherry picking, 538 was the only source I spent any time looking at prior to the
election — I
made no search for the «best»
predictions after the fact.
Silver
made his name with accurate
predictions of
election outcomes.
I «m going to boldly
make a
prediction (two weeks before the
election in the United States) that Hillary Clinton will become the next U.S. president and that Donald Trump (who former prime minister Kim Campbell publicly called a «self - celebrating sexual predator») will not become groper - in - chief.
I prefer the view that events such as the Trump lunacy, the 2017 UK Parliamentary
Election and Brexit should teach us about the foolishness of
making predictions about the future; more than likely we will be wrong.