The results for Dixville Notch are in !. Bush 19, Kerry 7. In 2000, Bush got 21 to Gore’s 5. There was a similar swing in Hart’s Location. Repeated nationwide, this swing would give Kerry a thumping victory[1].
fn1. As bases for spurious predictions go, I’d rank this one somewhere between the Washington Redskins home games and Ray Fair’s econometric model.
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bad Jim 11.02.04 at 6:43 am
It’s also been noted that a Red Sox win in the World Series in an election year predicts a Democratic victory, since it worked for Woodrow Wilson.
foo 11.02.04 at 11:57 am
So now the question is: would you rank Ray Fair’s model, re-weighted coefficients and all, above or below the Redskins?
Ken Houghton 11.02.04 at 2:46 pm
As a data point: The Redskins model has been perfect; Fair’s gets adjusted, sometimes significantly, every time it is wrong (read: every four years).
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