Both the Democratic and Republican GW-Battleground pollsters predict that Barack Obama will receive more than 50 percent of the popular vote in today’s election.

Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster and president of Lake Research Partners, predicts Obama will garner 51.5 percent of the popular vote, while Republican pollster Ed Goeas, Republican pollster and president of The Tarrance Group, sees Obama ending with 50.2 percent. If the pollsters are correct, this election would mark the first time a Democrat has won a majority of the popular vote since Jimmy Carter got 50.1 percent in 1976. (Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000, but with only 48.4 percent of the vote.)

In a news release, the University claimed that the Battleground Poll was the most accurate national poll in predicting presidential election results in 2004, 1996 and 1992.