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Will the Republicans Retake the House in 2010?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2010

Alfred G. Cuzán
Alfred G. Cuzán
Affiliation:
West Florida University
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Historically, statistical models for forecasting the outcome of midterm elections to the United States House of Representatives have not been particularly successful (Jones and Cuzán 2006). However, in what may have been a breakthrough, most models correctly predicted that the Democrats would re-emerge as the majority party in 2006 (Cuzán 2007). One successful model was estimated using 46 elections, beginning with 1914 (only the second time that 435 representatives, the present number, were elected). The model was relatively simple, making use of national-level variables only (Cuzán and Bundrick 2006). Using a similar model, I generated a forecast for the 2010 midterm election.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 639 - 641
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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