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FISCAL MODEL FAILURE: A MEASUREMENT PROBLEM? A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Alfred G. Cuzán
Alfred G. Cuzán*
Affiliation:
University of West Florida
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The Fiscal Model of presidential elections not only failed to predict that President Obama would win reelection handily, but the error incurred in the forecast of the incumbent share of the two-party vote was such (46.9% vs. 51.8% or more) as to warrant a rating of “inaccurate” or “quite inaccurate” in Campbell's table of benchmarks for evaluating forecasts (Campbell 2012, 611). This recap is a preliminary assessment of what went wrong.

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Features Symposium: Recap: Forecasting the 2012 Election
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 42 - 43
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2013

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