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The 2012 Presidential Election: Taking the “Fun” Out of Fundamentals?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2014

Matthew J. Dickinson*
Affiliation:
Middlebury College

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

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