Dish Network Calls Election for Clinton, Citing Set-Top Box Data

Dish Network is predicting Hillary Clinton will win the presidency and the House will remain in GOP hands. In a news release Monday, Dish pointed to its predictive model, based on customer viewership data from Internet-connected set-top boxes. Dish said the model used the relationship between programs Dish customers watched in 2014 with the state-by-state outcomes of the 2014 House elections as well as the relationship between House party control and presidential party affiliation historically, and that, when tested against 2014 House elections, called results at a 98 percent reliability point. The company said its modeling showed Republicans taking 245 of the 435 House seats, giving Democrats a two-seat gain.