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What, If Anything, Have We Learned from Presidential Election Forecasting?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2014

William G. Mayer*
Affiliation:
Northeastern University

Abstract

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Symposium: US Presidential Election Forecasting
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2014 

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