  US Presidential Election 2012 has been a very tight race between the two key
candidates. There were intense battle between the two key candidates. The
election reflects the sentiment of the electorate towards the achievements of
the incumbent President Obama. The campaign lasted several months and the
effects can be felt in the internet and twitter. The presidential debates
injected new vigor in the challenger's campaign and successfully captured the
electorate of several states posing a threat to the incumbent's position. Much
of the sentiment in the election has been captured in the online discussions.
In this paper, we will be using the original model described in Choy et. al.
(2011) using twitter data to forecast the next US president.
