Final Prognostication Results:  Pollkatz Method Vindicated!!
November 1 state vote projections by three pollsters, electoral-vote.com, and pollkatz.com.  Of the five, Professor Pollkatz called about half more accurately than any of the others.  Usually there was only one other (e-v.com), but Pollkatz dominated in the swing states.
poll date EV e-v.com final arg survey usa zogby pollkatz final from actual vote count (Kerry/(Bush+Kerry)), per NYT 5 Nov
DC 3 87.640% 90.472% 90.632%
MA 12 58.140% 64.547% 62.701%
RI 4 56.842% 65.459% 60.482%
VT 3 56.989% 55.994% 60.336%
NY 31 59.375% 62.928% 58.793%
MD 10 55.670% 58.464% 56.249%
CT 7 55.319% 58.571% 55.237%
CA 55 55.670% 56.591% 55.206%
IL 21 55.208% 56.508% 54.993%
ME 4 54.167% 53.039% 54.479%
HI 4 49.451% 59.546% 54.373%
DE 3 54.217% 56.625% 53.817%
WA 11 52.577% 53.852% 53.598%
NJ 15 50.000% 57.393% 53.127%
OR 7 53.191% 51.460% 51.969%
MN 10 53.125% 53.125% 51.870% 51.764%
MI 17 53.061% 53.061% 52.766% 51.734%
PA 21 50.515% 50.515% 52.083% 52.824% 51.130%
NH 4 50.515% 49.485% 49.461% 50.684%
WI 10 48.387% 50.274% 50.199%
IA 7 51.546% 51.546% 52.632% 50.593% 49.544%
NM 5 51.515% 51.515% 51.109% 49.416%
OH 20 48.454% 46.739% 48.454% 48.749%
NV 5 45.918% 45.918% 47.368% 48.781% 48.666%
FL 27 52.688% 51.020% 50.000% 49.961% 47.469%
CO 9 48.454% 48.454% 48.958% 46.484% 47.349%
MO 11 47.475% 49.606% 46.327%
VA 13 47.959% 45.974% 45.649%
AR 6 47.423% 49.646% 45.027%
AZ 10 42.268% 46.843% 44.740%
NC 15 45.918% 44.548% 43.715%
WV 5 45.745% 48.732% 43.477%
TN 11 40.816% 48.950% 42.780%
LA 9 35.556% 46.834% 42.626%
GA 15 42.708% 45.303% 41.582%
SC 8 44.330% 42.339% 41.305%
KY 8 39.175% 44.207% 39.994%
MS 6 45.161% 41.827% 39.906%
MT 3 38.710% 39.591% 39.505%
IN 11 40.206% 42.222% 39.456%
SD 3 37.500% 40.082% 39.088%
TX 34 38.542% 40.709% 38.490%
AL 9 40.625% 43.102% 37.078%
KS 6 38.144% 40.091% 36.970%
AK 3 34.483% 34.014% 36.170%
ND 3 38.889% 36.084% 36.086%
OK 7 34.694% 39.342% 34.438%
NE 5 34.409% 35.075% 32.533%
ID 4 33.708% 31.358% 30.707%
WY 3 30.851% 32.634% 29.704%
UT 5 25.806% 28.873% 27.061%
Vote percentages calculated as Kerry/(Bush + Kerry).  ARG, Survey USA and Zogby percentages are results published 1 November by those pollsters.  Results labelled "e-v.com" are those calculated directly from poll data posted at www.electoral-vote.com, which are the latest available poll results in each state.  Those labelled "pollkatz" are estimates using the historical-correlation-based method of www.pollkatz.com, based on the same data as electoral-vote.com except that polls more than five days old are discarded.  
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