Since last week's update, there have been new polls in New Hampshire, North Carolina, Alaska, and Washington.
In terms of category changes:
- NH has moved from Strong Warren to Weak Warren
- NC has moved from Weak Sanders to Weak Trump
That's it.
Biden's tipping point also moved from a 3.9% lead to a 3.4% lead.
All three of these changes are moves in Trump's direction. But if you look at the more granular changes, things are muddled, and it seems like a pretty flat week overall.
The national "win odds" from the probabilistic model now look like this:
In terms of changes since we looked last week:
| Dem | 11 Aug | 18 Aug | 𝚫 |
| Biden | 99.8% | 99.7% | -0.1% |
| Sanders | 94.8% | 94.1% | -0.7% |
| O'Rourke | 80.0% | 80.0% | Flat |
| Warren | 65.8% | 67.6% | +1.8% |
| Buttigieg | 62.4% | 63.2% | +0.8% |
| Harris | 63.7% | 62.9% | -0.8% |
Warren and Buttigieg improve a little bit.
Biden, Sanders, and Harris weaken a bit.
Harris drops to being the weakest of these six candidates against Trump.
O'Rourke doesn't move. But that is because none of the four polls this week even bothered to include him. Oops.
Let's look at each of these four states:
Biden is the only Democrat with a lead in North Carolina.
Before the Civitas poll added this week, Sanders had a very narrow lead in North Carolina as well. But although the Civitas poll was RELEASED this week, it had an earlier mid-date than the SurveyUSA poll that had given Sanders that lead last week, and so the Civitas poll (which showed a Trump lead) essentially erased that change from the chart.
The rest of the Democrats all lose to Trump, but narrowly.
The trends all show the Democrats generally improving as more polls come in though.
Except for Harris. She is getting weaker in North Carolina.
The Zogby poll added this week is the first general election polling for Washington State. Washington is a very blue state. But all five Democrats polled move the polling average to be even bluer than the 2000-2016 historical average.
It is of note that this is one of the very few states where Sanders does better against Trump than Biden does.
As usual, though, those two do noticeably better than the other Democrats.
Biden and Sanders have strong leads over Trump in New Hampshire. The other Democrats also lead, but by more narrow margins. The general trend as new polling comes in is toward the Democrats though.
Except for Warren's recent move in the other direction.
These are the very first Alaska polls this cycle.
Alaska is a very red state. But all five Democrats polled improve their Election Graphs averages over the historical average of the 2000-2016 elections that I use as a starting point before there are any polls.
As usual, Biden does best against Trump, followed by Sanders.
But Alaska is still a very red state.
And that is where things stand this week.
443.0 days until polls start to close.
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