The results are in for one Illinois university’s famous mock presidential election, and we really should pay attention because they have a pretty good track record.
Western Illinois University’s mock election predicted a landslide victory for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, with running mate Martin O’Malley, in 2016. The predicted Sanders-O’Malley ticket garnered 404 electoral votes to Jeb Bush-Marco Rubio’s 114 votes. In the popular vote, Sanders earned 741 votes (49 percent) to Bush’s 577 (38 percent).
Dr. Richard Hardy, one of the organizers of the mock election joined John Howell to talk about their methodology and the results of the mock election.
