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Response to “Predicting and Dissecting the Seat-Votes Curve in the 2006 U.S. House Election”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2008

Theodore S. Arrington
Theodore S. Arrington
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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The article on the seats-votes curve by Kastellec, Gelman, and Chandler (January 2008, 139–45) presents interesting and helpful analysis and data. Especially important is the insight that incumbency necessarily requires a minority party to receive more than 50% of the vote to gain control of the House of Representatives. However the article is misleading in two respects.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 473 - 474
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2008

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