Informs Today: The Podcast Series

Pollsters predict a neck-and-neck contest between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Governor Mitt Romney on Election Day. So why are two operations researchers so confident that President Obama can't lose? In this podcast, listen to American University Professor Allan Lichtman, author of Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House 2012, and University of Illinois Professor Sheldon Jacobson, whose election forecasting website is at http://electionanalytics.cs.illinois.edu/index.html. More about their methods is in an upcoming issue of ORMS Today and an article by Doug Samuelson in the current issue of Analytics Magazine. You can hear them in person at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting at this special workshop.