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Polls, Forecasts, and Aggregators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2014

Mark Blumenthal
Mark Blumenthal*
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The Huffington Post
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Symposium: US Presidential Election Forecasting
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , April 2014 , pp. 297 - 300
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2014 

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