Mustycaribou Forecasts

Professional election intelligence
By Preston last updated

2024 Presidential Election

A final accounting of the presidential forecast: what the map got right, where the miss concentrated, and how close the margins were in the states that mattered.

Final archive
Uploaded final prediction file 2024 archive source
Uploaded 2024 election prediction preview
The uploaded Numbers file is preserved here through its embedded preview image.

Prediction Accuracy Map

Winner predicted correctly Winner predicted incorrectly

Dashboard

2024 Senate Election

A state-by-state audit of the Senate forecast margins recovered from the uploaded election file, with the overall 33/34 winner record shown alongside the margin-performance dashboard.

33/34 correct
Senate races with margin data in the uploaded forecast file
State Predicted Margin Actual Margin Margin Error Winner Correct

Pennsylvania was the only wrong Senate winner call. The polling miss was substantial, but the Trump effect in Pennsylvania was something I should have weighted more heavily, especially because a similar underestimation appeared in 2016.