Monday, October 19, 2009

Projection Method Revision and Update

There has been a lot of commentary that my projections seem out of whack with current polling. Frankly, I agree. I diagnosed the culprit not as my system of projection, but the polling aggregates I was using to make my projections. No offense to Eric over at threehundredeight who does a wonderful job, but the innate conservatism of those numbers meant they were lagging current polling. As a result, I've tried my hand at aggregating polls. These projections are based on all public polling I could find for the last thirty days. The weighting is based on the age and sample size of the polls. Future projections will be based on a rolling 30 day aggregate. I've included my polling aggregate results in parentheses for your information.

National Picture

CPC 150 (38.13%)
LPC 77 (28.15%)
NDP 29 (14.99%)
BQ 52 (8.73%)
GPC 0 (9.39%)

Province-by-Province:

BC: CPC 21 (40.47%), NDP 10 (22.83%), LPC 5 (23.66%), GPC 0 (12.69%)
AB: CPC 28 (62.98%), LPC 0 (15.46%), NDP 0 (11.46%), GPC 0 (9.19%)
SK*: CPC 13, LPC 1
MB*: CPC 10, LPC 2 , NDP 2
ON: CPC 59 (42.87%), LPC 35 (32.42%), NDP 12 (14.78%), GPC 0 (9.66%)
QC: BQ 52 (37.46%), LPC 14 (25.51%), CPC 9 (19.54%), NDP 0 (9.77%), GPC 0 (7.09%)
NB**: CPC 5, LPC 4, NDP 1
NS**: LPC 5, CPC 4, NDP 2
PE**: LPC 4
NL**: LPC 6, NDP 1

*Prairie Aggregate:
CPC 53.06%
LPC 21.84%
NDP 18.9%
GPC 6.32%

**Atlantic Aggregate:

LPC 38.04%
CPC 31.4%
NDP 23.02%
GPC 6.97%

4 comments:

CanadianSense said...

Eric has a great site and you do and I admire the effort and time you both put in providing discourse.

Thank you.

We may not agree on politics but your efforts and posts are interesting.

CanadianSense said...

Have your thought of linking the multiple projections sites for variances and take a bet with the projections sites like adopting the other persons logo for a year?

Like the mayors for the NHL jersey.

Cheers

Aaron Ginsberg said...

haha... that's an interesting idea... no way in hell I'm wearing Habs jersey though.

CanadianSense said...

The Logo has an H, I am waiting for the someone from your team to make it part of logo propaganda thingy.

http://www.democraticspace.com/canada2009/

http://cdnelectionwatch.blogspot.com/

a few more 308, paultics etc.

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