New York Governor 2026Safe
Kathy Hochul (D) vs. Bruce Blakeman (R)
Precision Combined forecast
96%
Kathy Hochul (D) to be New York's next governor
- Kathy Hochul (D)
- 96.1% · −2464
- Bruce Blakeman (R)
- 3.9% · +2464
- Sources used
- 4 of 5
- Market money behind it
- $764k
As of Oct 13, 7:37 AM ET · refreshes about every 30 minutes
Kalshi
34% weight- Kathy Hochul95¢ ▼0.1
- Bruce Blakeman6¢ ▼0.1
$589k traded, 0¢ spread
Polymarket
29% weight- Kathy Hochul96% ▲0.1
- Bruce Blakeman4.1% ▼0.2
$175k traded, 1¢ spread
PredictIt
9% weight- Democratic94¢ ▲1
- Republican4¢ ▼5
PredictIt publishes no volume, 3¢ spread
Public polls
29% weightD +12.9
Kathy Hochul 52.8% · Bruce Blakeman 39.9%
3 pollsters · latest ended Oct 5, 2026
3 pollsters, latest ended Oct 5, 1 with a partisan sponsor (half credit)
Precision member poll
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RealClearPolitics
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Market money behind the number: $764k
- 34%Kalshi$589k traded, 0¢ spread
- 29%Public polls3 pollsters, latest ended Oct 5, 1 with a partisan sponsor (half credit)
- 29%Polymarket$175k traded, 1¢ spread
- 9%PredictItPredictIt publishes no volume, 3¢ spread
- —Precision member pollNot fielded yet. Joins this number when the Precision member panel launches.
- —Attention: news volume, news tone, Wikipedia pageviewsClosed: only Wikipedia has enough volume; the gate needs two independent sources. 0% unless the gate opens; 5% to 15% when it does. Signals ↓
Weight = trust × evidence for this race, scaled to 100% across the sources used. The rule ↓
Attention and momentum
Gate closedNews coverage and public interest are moving toward Bruce Blakeman (momentum -0.48 on a −1 to +1 scale, positive toward Kathy Hochul). It is shown here and not blended into the number. Gate closed: only Wikipedia has enough volume; the gate needs two independent sources.
News volume36% of bucket
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Not enough days of data yet
News tone29% of bucket
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Not enough days of coverage to score tone
Wikipedia pageviews36% of bucket
-0.48
6.6k views/day last week; Hochul's share 53% → 46%
No news articles a day stored yet.
Last 28 days; shaded = last 7. Source: GDELT.
No average news tone stored yet.
Last 28 days; shaded = last 7. Source: GDELT.
Last 28 days; shaded = last 7. Source: Wikipedia.
● Kathy HochulGDELT seriesWikipedia article● Bruce BlakemanGDELT seriesWikipedia article
Not measured yet: search interest (15%) and social volume and sentiment (15%). Their share is spread over the measured signals until they are wired. News tone is the tone of coverage, not of voters. The gate rule →
Recent public polls
Blakeman 39.7 · Hochul 52.4
Oct 3 – Oct 5, 2026 · 900 LV
Hochul 48 · Blakeman 41
Sep 23 – Sep 25, 2026 · 1046 LV
Hochul 58 · Blakeman 39
Sep 17 – Sep 20, 2026 · 1026 LV
Concord Public Opinion Partners
Hochul 50 · Blakeman 34
Aug 19 – Aug 21, 2026 · 505 LV
Hochul 49 · Blakeman 39
Aug 3 – Aug 6, 2026 · 811 LV
Hochul 47 · Blakeman 43
Jul 7 – Jul 12, 2026 · 2000 RV
Hochul 47 · Blakeman 41
Jun 30 – Jul 2, 2026 · 1085 LV
Hochul 44 · Blakeman 19
Jun 23 – Jun 26, 2026 · 800 RV
Hochul 52 · Blakeman 32
Jun 17 – Jun 23, 2026 · 1120 RV
How the Precision Funnel™ builds the Precision Combined number
Everything available on a race goes into the top of the funnel. No source has a fixed percentage: each one’s weight comes from how much evidence it carries for this race, by the published rule on the right.
- Public polls. Every public poll of the race, national, state or local, is vetted before it counts: how many people it reached, how recent it is, whether it screened for likely voters, and whether a party or campaign paid for it. Campaign internal polls are left out.
- Prediction markets, priced by money at risk. For each market we add up the dollars traded (contracts times price). A market with under $10k traded, a spread wider than 10¢, or a 15-point jump on under $25k is left out, because one buyer can set that price.
- Local and regional sources. Newspaper, radio and university polls get the same vetting as step 1. Today they arrive through the public poll feed; we are adding the local sources national feeds miss. In races national pollsters skip, such as state cabinet offices, they may be most of what exists.
- Attention and momentum. News volume and tone (GDELT) and Wikipedia pageviews for the two leading candidates, this week against the three weeks before. Attention is not votes, so it counts only through a gate: two independent sources with enough volume, all moving the same way. Then it carries 5% to 15% of the number; otherwise 0%, shown beside the number. Search interest and social platforms join as they are wired.
- our own member poll. Our panel, weighted to the voter file on party, age, sex, education, income and region. It starts with the same trust as outside polls and earns more only through a scored track record.Not live yet
- The number. Market prices are scaled to add to 100%, a poll lead becomes a win chance with a bell curve 6 points wide, and the sources are averaged with their weights. Every race page prints the weights it got and why.
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The weighting rule
Weight = trust × evidence, then scaled so the sources used add to 100%.
| Source | Trust | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kalshi, Polymarket | 1 | Dollars traded ÷ (dollars traded + $50k). $50k counts half, $1M about 95%. |
| PredictIt | ½ | Fixed at ½, since PredictIt publishes no volume and caps each contract at $850. |
| Public polls | 1 | Grows with each vetted poll: full credit at 600 respondents, half credit every 21 days of age, less for registered voters or all adults, half for a partisan sponsor. |
| Precision member poll | 1 | Effective sample ÷ 800 (max 1) × share of demographic groups that match the voter file. Left out under 200 respondents. |
So a Senate race with deep markets and many polls lands near an even split, while a race no market lists and only one local paper polled leans almost entirely on the polls that exist. The constants above are the same for every race; changing one is a new method version, dated and logged. Trust values will be refit on our own scored history and the change published. RealClearPolitics is linked for comparison but not used: RCP has no public data feed and its terms don’t allow republishing its averages. Market prices reflect traders’ money, not a poll of voters. PredictIt data is shown under its non-commercial license. The Funnel never uses a number we did not measure or a source we cannot name.