{"id":24527,"date":"2016-11-06T06:23:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24527"},"modified":"2016-11-06T07:12:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T15:12:06","slug":"last-prediction-for-2016-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/last-prediction-for-2016-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Prediction for 2016 Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1106ElecMapTC\" border=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1106ElecMapTC.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"1106ElecMapTC\" width=\"650\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In 2008, I accurately predicted the winner in every state except Florida.&nbsp; In 2012, I accurately predicted the winner in every state.&nbsp; In 2016, I accurately predict that pigs will fly before I can do that well this year, in spite of several years experience as an opinion research professional at a market research firm.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There has never been an election like this before, so instead, I&#39;ve painted what I consider to be a worst-case scenario.&nbsp; I put every state in Trump&#39;s column, unless I was confident of a Clinton win there.&nbsp; There are several such states in which I think Clinton will win, such as NV, and NC.&nbsp; The main reason I didn&#39;t give her Ohio is that Republican State governments there have a long history of counting more Republican votes in some districts than there are eligible voters.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The reason I did not strive for greater accuracy, is to show you that my worst case scenario is so close that complacency is not an option.&nbsp; Your vote is too important to waste.&nbsp; If I&#39;m right about every state except FL and PA, the United States of America will die.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, I accurately predicted the winner in every state except Florida.&nbsp; In 2012, I accurately predicted the winner in every state.&nbsp; In 2016, I accurately predict that pigs will fly before I can do that well this year, in spite of several years experience as an opinion research professional at a market research firm. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/last-prediction-for-2016-presidential-election\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}