Sentence examples for forecasting elections from inspiring English sources

Forecasting elections in Pakistan is all but impossible.

Do either of these do a better job of forecasting elections?

As imperfect as prediction markets are in forecasting elections, they have at least as good a recent record as polls.

Years ago, I got interested in the work of Ray Fair, a Yale economist who pioneered the development of forecasting elections based upon a few simple economic statistics, such as G.D.P. growth, inflation, and unemployment.

"Coalition government and Ukip have thrown spanners in the old assumptions," says Sanders. "I have been forecasting elections pretty accurately for years on the basis of rates of confidence and competence.

The seats–votes model appears to have an edge over its rival, when it comes to forecasting elections.

IN MOST Indian states, forecasting election results is easy: incumbent governments lose.

Pundits are no better at forecasting election outcomes than they would be at predicting the final path of a hurricane.

Until 10 years ago he directed the Pennsylvania Poll of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which was highly regarded for its accuracy in forecasting election outcomes.

Polls conducted on the eve of the voting day have been successful in forecasting election results in nearly every case in which they have been used for this purpose.

Thus, while the raw rate of unemployment has been one of the least useful variables for forecasting election results, the rate of job growth during the election year (whether measured by this variable or by closely-related ones like the net change in the unemployment rate or the employment-to-population ratio) has held up pretty well.