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Introduction—Assessments of the 2004 Presidential Vote Forecasts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2005

James E. Campbell
Affiliation:
University at Buffalo, SUNY

Extract

In the 2004 presidential election, 121.1 million ballots were cast for the major party candidates. President George W. Bush received 51.24% of these votes to Senator John Kerry's 48.76%. As Bush prepares for his second term, we know how the candidates performed. How did the election forecasters do?

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Symposium
Copyright
© 2005 by the American Political Science Association

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References

Campbell James E. 2004. “Introduction: The 2004 Presidential Election Forecasts.” PS: Political Science & Politics 37 (October): 7335.Google Scholar
Fair Ray C. 2004. “A Vote Equation and the 2004 Election.” http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/vote2004/index2.htmGoogle Scholar