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Forecasting the 2010 State Legislative Elections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2010

Carl Klarner
Carl Klarner
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Indiana State University
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This article offers forecasts made on July 22, 2010, for the 2010 state legislative elections. Most work in the election forecasting field has been done on presidential and U.S. House elections. Less has been done for U.S. Senate elections, and almost none for gubernatorial or state legislative elections. This year will see much attention directed at the 43 state legislatures holding elections, because many will have the responsibility for drawing new district lines based on the 2010 census. Furthermore, of those chambers with elections scheduled in 2010, seven currently contain one party with less than a 5% margin of control. With so much at stake, these will clearly be contests to watch.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 643 - 648
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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