Many forecasts have Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden winning the U.S. presidency - but a new poll from The Economist shows a Biden landslide.

The latest poll released this week by The Economist gives Biden a nine-in-10 chance of winning the Electoral College. Biden has a 99% chance of winning the most Electoral College votes.

Biden might win 471 of 538 maximum votes. A candidate must win 270 votes to be U.S. president.

The poll gives President Donald Trump a 9% chance of taking the Electoral College vote. Trump's chance of winning the most Electoral College votes is 1%.

The Economist forecasts are based on a predictive model simulating 20,000 paths for the election. Each path varies the candidates' vote shares to account for polling error, changes in turnout or the political environment and the effects of campaigning. This model is updated every day and combines state and national polls with economic indicators to predict a range of outcomes.

Polling analysis website FiveThirtyEight predicts a Biden Electoral College win but not as lopsided as The Economist. It gives Biden an 87 in 100 chance of winning the Electoral College compared with Trump's 13 in 100.

FiveThirtyEight said Democrats were favored to retain control of the House of Representatives and were now slightly favored to gain control of the Senate.

Biden's lead is also paralleled by his growing edge in the popular vote. On Oct. 7 Biden saw his largest lead in CNN's national opinion poll - 16 percentage points. The CNN Poll shows likely voters supporting Biden, 57% to 41%.

Biden led Trump on the economy and law and order and among all population demographics except for noncollege educated Whites.

Likely voters preferred Biden over Trump in handling the COVID-19 pandemic 59% to 38%, the economy 50% to 48%, crime and safety 55% to 43%, health care 59% to 39%, race 62% to 36% and nominations to the Supreme Court 57% to 41%.