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The PollyVote Popular Vote Forecast for the 2020 US Presidential Election

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2020

J. Scott Armstrong  and
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J. Scott Armstrong
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Andreas Graefe
Affiliation:
Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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Forecasting the 2020 US Elections
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 96 - 98
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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