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Four Suggestions for Making Election Forecasts Better, and Better Known

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2014

John Sides
John Sides*
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George Washington University
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Symposium: US Presidential Election Forecasting
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , April 2014 , pp. 339 - 341
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