Math Model Shows McCain Ahead By As Many As 27 Electoral College Votes

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 15:21 in Mathematics & Economics

A new approach to determining who will win the most electoral votes in the US Presidential race factors in lessons learned from the 2004 election and uses sophisticated math modeling. The research will be presented at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). As of Sept. 16, the margin in electoral votes could be as high as 282.8 votes for McCain against 255.2 for Obama.

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