CBS MarketWatch: New election forecasting method developed by Campbell, colleagues

Release Date: July 3, 2008 This content is archived.

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An article on CBS MarketWatch on factors that indicate that Barack Obama will win the presidential election reports that James Campbell, professor and chair of political science, and a few colleagues have created a system that combines several forecasting methods into one, with that system predicting that McCain is expected to get 47.4 percent of the two-party vote, the lowest his expected vote has been all year.

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