{"id":53394,"date":"2016-10-24T20:58:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T00:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53394"},"modified":"2016-10-24T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T00:58:26","slug":"professor-who-predicted-last-five-elections-says-trump-has-87-chance-of-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53394","title":{"rendered":"PROFESSOR WHO PREDICTED LAST FIVE ELECTIONS SAYS TRUMP HAS 87% CHANCE OF WINNING"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-subtitle\">Helmut Norpoth still confident despite polls showing Hillary ahead<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Paul Joseph Watson &#8211; Infowars.com<\/p>\n<p>Political science professor Helmut Norpoth, who has accurately called the results of the last five presidential elections, still asserts that Donald Trump has an 87% chance of defeating Hillary Clinton despite Clinton being ahead in the polls.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSNosmQYPs0\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Norpoth\u2019s model has correctly predicted the outcome of the popular vote for every election since 1996, including the 2000 race where Al Gore won the popular vote but George W. Bush took the presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cIt usually turns out that the candidate who does better in his party\u2019s primary beats the other guy who does less well,\u201d said Norpoth, adding that Trump\u2019s margin of victory in New Hampshire and South Carolina compared to Clinton (who lost in New Hampshire) was crucial to his model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">The other factor is the \u201cswing of the pendulum,\u201d which makes it far more likely for a change of government if one party has been in power for two terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Norpoth said he has gone \u201call in\u201d on a Donald Trump victory and is sticking with his bet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cThere are also quite a few colleagues of mine who have a prediction that Trump is going to make it,\u201d added the professor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Many Trump supporters are now claiming that the media narrative that the election result is a foregone conclusion is a trick designed to convince potential Trump voters to stay home on November 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/327697446\/CTR-Digital-Disruption-Memo\">confidential memo<\/a> allegedly obtained from Correct The Record, a Democratic Super PAC, reveals a plan to \u201cbarrage\u201d voters with high frequency polls that show Hillary ahead in order to \u201cdeclare election over,\u201d while avoiding any mention of the Brexit vote (which completely contradicted polls that said Brexit would fail).<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Emails<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-23\/new-podesta-email-exposes-dem-playbook-rigging-polls-through-oversamples\"> revealed by Wikileaks<\/a> show how Democratic operatives planned to encourage \u201coversamples for polling\u201d in order to \u201cmaximize what we get out of our media polling.\u201d In other words, sample more Democrats than Republicans in order to make people believe that Hillary\u2019s lead is far greater than the reality of a tight race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Norpoth\u2019s forecast of a Trump victory mirrors what\u2019s taking place in the betting markets, with British bookmakers <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4536465\/donald-trump-bet-victory-brexit\/\">William Hill revealing<\/a> last week that 65% of all bets on the market have backed Trump to win the election, a similar phenomenon to what happened before the Brexit vote, where the polls were proven completely wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/professor-who-predicted-last-five-elections-says-trump-has-87-chance-of-winning\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/professor-who-predicted-last-five-elections-says-trump-has-87-chance-of-winning\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helmut Norpoth still confident despite polls showing Hillary ahead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}