Forecasting the presidential and congressional elections of 2012: The trial-heat and the seats-in-trouble models

PS - Political Science and Politics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 630-634

  Campbell, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 84870219020     PISSN: 10490965     EISSN: 15375935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S104909651200090X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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