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					<description><![CDATA[<p>KEY POINTS President Donald Trump will win reelection easily in 2020 if the economy holds up, modeling by Moody’s Analytics shows. “If voters were to vote primarily on the basis of their pocketbooks, the president would steamroll the competition,” the &#8230; <a class="kt-excerpt-readmore" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/trump-is-on-his-way-to-an-easy-win-in-2020-according-to-moodys-accurate-election-model/" aria-label="Trump is on his way to an easy win in 2020, according to Moody’s accurate election model">Read More</a></p>
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<li>President Donald Trump will win reelection easily in 2020 if the economy holds up, modeling by Moody’s Analytics shows.</li>
<li>“If voters were to vote primarily on the basis of their pocketbooks, the president would steamroll the competition,” the report states.</li>
<li>Three models show Trump getting at least 289 electoral votes and as many as 351, assuming average turnout.</li>
<li>The Moody’s models have been backtested to 1980 and were correct each time — except in 2016 when it indicated Clinton would get a narrow victory.<br />
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<div class="InlineImage-imageEmbedCaption">President Donald Trump pumps his fists as he arrives for a “Make America Great Again” rally at Minges Coliseum in Greenville, North Carolina, on July 17, 2019.</div>
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<p>President <a class="" tabindex="" title="" role="" href="https://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/" target="" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-type="" aria-label="">Donald Trump</a> looks likely to cruise to reelection next year under three different economic models Moody’s Analytics employed to gauge the 2020 race.</p>
<p>Barring anything unusual happening, the president’s Electoral College victory could easily surpass his 2016 win over Democrat Hillary Clinton, which came by a 304-227 count.</p>
<p>Moody’s based its projections on how consumers feel about their own financial situation, the <a class="" tabindex="" title="" role="" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/15/dow-futures-ahead-of-bank-earnings.html" target="" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-type="" aria-label="">gains the stock market has achieved</a> during Trump’s tenure and the prospects for <a class="" tabindex="" title="" role="" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/04/jobs-report---september-2019.html" target="" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-type="" aria-label="">unemployment, which has fallen to a 50-year low</a>. Should those variables hold up, the president looks set to get another four-year term.</p>
<p>The modeling has been highly accurate going back to the 1980 election, missing only once.</p>
<p>“If the economy a year from now is the same as it is today, or roughly so, then the power of incumbency is strong and Trump’s election odds are very good, particularly if Democrats aren’t enthusiastic and don’t get out to vote,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics and co-author of the paper along with Dan White, the firm’s director of government consulting and fiscal policy research, and Bernard Yaros, an assistant director and economist. “It’s about turnout.”</p>
<p>Three models show Trump getting at least 289 electoral votes, assuming average turnout. His chances decrease with maximum turnout on the Democratic side and increase with minimum turnout expected.</p>
<p>Of the three models, he does best under the “pocketbook” measure of how people feel about their finances. In that scenario, assuming average nonincumbent turnout, he gets 351 electoral votes to the generic Democrat’s 187. “Record turnout is vital to a Democratic victory,” the report said.</p>
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<p>In the stock market model, Trump gets a 289-249 edge, while the unemployment model shows a 332-206 advantage. Across all three models, Trump wins 324-214.</p>
<p>“Our ‘pocket¬book’ model is the most economically driven of the three. If voters were to vote primarily on the basis of their pocketbooks, the president would steamroll the competition,” the report said. “This shows the importance that prevailing economic sentiment at the household level could hold in the next election.”</p>
<p>Stock market levels also are key, and the two are intertwined. Zandi said that even a garden-variety 12% market correction around election time could sway the race, as could an unexpected downturn in the economy.</p>
<p>The results might come as a surprise given Trump’s consistently low favorability ratings — 40% in the latest Gallup poll — and as most head-to-head matchups against Democrats show the president losing.</p>
<p>However, the report said that Trump’s relatively stable ratings help provide a good benchmark for how he will do once election time comes.</p>
<p>Zandi said the race could come down a few key counties in Pennsylvania, which Trump flipped in 2016 after the state had voted Democrat in the previous five presidential elections.</p>
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<p>Specifically, he said Luzerne County, in the northeast part of the state, “is the single-most important county, no kidding, in the entire election.” The longtime Democratic stronghold favored Trump, 51.8% to 46.8% in the election.</p>
<p>Trump doesn’t even have to win the county, but merely needs a strong turnout, Zandi said.</p>
<p>The Moody’s models have been backtested to 1980 and were correct each time — except in 2016, when they ndicated Clinton would get a narrow victory. The authors attributed “unexpected turnout patterns” in Trump’s favor caused the error and they adjusted for that in the latest projections. They also said the will be updating the projections as conditions develop and change.</p>
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<p>Source: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/15/moodys-trump-on-his-way-to-an-easy-2020-win-if-economy-holds-up.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/15/moodys-trump-on-his-way-to-an-easy-2020-win-if-economy-holds-up.html</a></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Hurricane Maria could cost Puerto Rico $45 billion to $95 billion in damage &#8212; a devastating blow to the island&#8217;s already ailing economy. The high end of the range, released Thursday by Moody&#8217;s Analytics, represents almost an entire year&#8217;s economic &#8230; <a class="kt-excerpt-readmore" href="https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/hurricane-maria-95-billion-storm-puerto-rico/" aria-label="Hurricane Maria could be a $95 billion storm for Puerto Rico">Read More</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hurricane Maria could cost Puerto Rico $45 billion to $95 billion in damage &#8212; a devastating blow to the island&#8217;s already ailing economy.</p>
<p>The high end of the range, released Thursday by Moody&#8217;s Analytics, represents almost an entire year&#8217;s economic output for Puerto Rico.</p>
<p>The estimate underscores &#8220;why officials are now suggesting that its economy may be set back decades,&#8221; Adam Kamins, a senior economist at the firm, wrote in an analysis.</p>
<p>The damage estimate from Moody&#8217;s is the highest yet. A more conservative estimate earlier this week from the disaster research group Enki Research put the total at $30 billion.</p>
<p>Damage to Puerto Rico has been catastrophic. People are scrambling for food, water, fuel and cash. Almost the entire island is without power, and outages are expected to last for months in some areas.</p>
<p>The Moody&#8217;s estimate says as much as $40 billion could be lost in economic output because of impassable roads and lost power. Property damage could total $55 billion.</p>
<p>For comparison: Moody&#8217;s estimates that Hurricanes Irma and Harvey combined caused more than $150 billion in damage after those storms hit major U.S. cities in Texas, Florida and Georgia.</p>
<p>&#8220;Given that Harvey and Irma disrupted far larger and more vibrant economies than that of Puerto Rico, this reflects the stunning amount of damage that Maria has wrought,&#8221; Kamins said.</p>
<p>Puerto Rico&#8217;s economy was already struggling. The island has been in recession for 11 years and has lost 10% of its population in that time. In May, it filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.</p>
<p>Kamins said fallout from Hurricane Maria could make it all worse. Puerto Ricans are American citizens and can freely move to the mainland.</p>
<p>&#8220;The end result could be a permanent increase in the rate of population decline, with many of those who remain too poor to move elsewhere,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Puerto Rico&#8217;s already murky future is now even more in doubt.&#8221;</p>
<p>The catastrophe modeling firm RMS released a damage estimate Thursday for the entire Caribbean that was also more conservative than Moody&#8217;s. It said damage to the region could be $30 billion to $60 billion.</p>
<p>Maria devastated several islands in the region, including Dominica and the U.S. Virgin Islands.</p>
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<p>Source: <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/28/news/economy/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-damage-estimate/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/28/news/economy/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-damage-estimate/index.html</a></p>
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