The midterm landslide of 2010: A triple wave election

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Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Campbell, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

congress; economy; elections; midterm elections; polarization; political parties; presidency; presidential approval; retrospective voting; voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951542611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15408884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1540-8884.1405     Document Type: Article

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