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
Final presidential forecast Before election day

Final forecast map. Blue states were predicted Democratic, red states were predicted Republican. The audit map below compares this forecast with the actual result.

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.