Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/307345 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11415
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
This document is a follow up to the paper by Ahmed and Pesaran (2020, AP) and reports state-level forecasts for the 2024 US presidential election. It updates the 3,107 county level data used by AP and uses the same machine learning techniques as before to select the variables used in forecasting voter turnout and the Republican vote shares by states for 2024. The models forecast the non-swing states correctly but give mixed results for the swing states (Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia). Our forecasts for the swing states do not make use of any polling data but confirm the very close nature of the 2024 election, much closer than AP's predictions for 2020. The forecasts are too close to call.
Subjects: 
voter turnout
popular and electoral college votes
simultaneity and recursive identification
high dimensional forecasting models
Lasso
OCMT
JEL: 
C53
C55
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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