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The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 64 No. 2 1982

The Effect of Economic Events on Votes for President: 1980 Results

Ray C. Fair

Abstract

In previous work I have developed an equation explaining votes for president in the United States that seems to have a remarkable predictive ability. In this paper the equation is updated through the 1984 election and then used to predict the 1988 election.

DOI
10.2307/1924312
Volume
64
Issue
2
Pages
322
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