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Reply to Dr. Arrington

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2008

Jonathan D. Kastellec
Affiliation:
Columbia University
Andrew Gelman
Affiliation:
Columbia University
Jaime P. Chandler
Affiliation:
City University of New York

Extract

We thank Dr. Arrington for his kind words about our article. In this letter we respond tohis two main criticisms: that our use of the term bias in describing thesituation facing the Democratic Party in 2006 is misleading and that using total vote toassess the results of the election is preferable to using average district vote, as we didin the article.

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