Brendan Nyhan

Stimson and Franklin horse race estimates

UNC’s James Stimson (the country’s leading analyst of macro public opinion) is posting daily horse race estimates for the presidential race on his website. Right now he has Obama at 53% of the two-party vote:

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It’s almost exactly consistent with the estimate by Wisconsin’s Charles Franklin that appears at Pollster.com:

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[Note that, unlike Stimson, Franklin’s graph covers 2007 as well as 2008. Also, he includes lines for both Obama and McCain.]