A presidential candidate only needs 270 Electoral College votes to win, and if Emerson College The polls are correct — Hillary Clinton will far exceed that number.
Emerson College is anticipation the Democratic candidate will win by a vote of 323 to 215.
How do they imagine it?
Emerson took into account the latest poll results in key and other states, as well as averages from RealClearPolitics polls.
Emerson predicts Clinton will win key states: Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Republican Party candidate Donald Trump is projected to win in Iowa and Ohio.
The college as well predicts Democrats have a very good chance of regaining the Senate.
In the battleground Senate races, Emerson also predicts that Democrats will emerge from the election with 50 or more seats. That would be enough to win a Senate majority if Clinton is elected and Tim Kaine, as vice president, becomes the tiebreaker. Our latest round of polls suggests that the following Democratic candidates will flip GOP seats in four states: Tammy Duckworth vs. Mark Kirk in Illinois, Russ Feingold vs. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, Jason Kander vs. Roy Blunt in Missouri, and Katie McGinty vs. Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania.
Here’s what their projection map looks like:
