It has been been just over four weeks since my last blog post.
Since then on a state level there have been 6 Biden vs Trump polls (NC, IA, PAx2, AZ, MI) along with 5 Biden vs DeSantis polls (NC, IA, PA, AZ, MI), and 1 Biden vs Pence poll (NC). If you want updates on each and every poll as it comes out, as well as daily summaries, follow Election Graphs on Mastodon. Right now the polling volume is still pretty low. It will accelerate as the election gets closer. Eventually there will be tons of new polls every single day. But not for a long while yet.
Honestly the situation isn't all that different than it was four weeks ago. There has been some movement toward Biden, but not a really dramatic change. Just Trump slowly getting a bit weaker. But it has been four weeks, so it seems worth looking at things again.
Let's start by looking at how the "spectrum of close states" has changed:
2023-03-25
What changes do we see?
- Michigan: Biden by 2.4% -> Biden by 2.2% (Trump+0.2%)
- Pennsylvania: Biden by 1.6% -> Biden by 1.8% (Biden+0.2%)
- North Carolina: Trump by 1.9% -> Trump by 0.5% (Biden+1.4%)
- Arizona: Trump by 4.1% -> Trump by 1.8% (Biden+2.3%)
- Iowa: Trump by 11.0% -> Trump by 10.0% (Biden+1.0%)
So 4 out of 5 states with Biden vs Trump polls moved toward Biden.
None of these changed the picture in my categorization view, but this does adjust the probabilistic views a bit. Here is the new overall status summary:
Since ties would almost certainly end up going for Trump in the end once it got thrown to the House voting by state delegation, rather than confuse things by having to add those up, I'll look at the odds for Biden:
- 2023-03-25: Biden win odds between 17.8% and 25.8%
- 2023-04-24: Biden win odds between 24.9% and 32.3%
As always, these are "if the election was held today", which it isn't. This still shows Biden as an underdog in this matchup. But doing better than a month ago.
The odds charts:
As usual, the Independent States chart is more dynamic, but these represent extremes, and the "truth" is somewhere in between. And both views still show Trump peaking right around the 2022 midterms, and slowly deteriorating ever since.
Some of that downward movement is after his indictment in NY, but there was even more before that. So at this point you can't really say that event was an inflection point. The already in progress decline just continued.
Oh, and I didn't mention Biden vs DeSantis, or any other combination other than the 2020 rematch, because that is still the only combination with enough state level polling to be able to feel confident about the national picture. Biden vs DeSantis is getting there. But isn't there yet. If you want to look at that combination yourself, here is the Biden vs DeSantis summary.
Not much else to say for the moment. So lets end with the new map:
561.8 days until polls start to close on Election 2024.