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CBS MarketWatch: New election forecasting method developed by Campbell, colleagues

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Release Date: July 3, 2008

An article on CBS MarketWatch on factors that indicate that Barack Obama will win the presidential election reports that James Campbell, professor and chair of political science, and a few colleagues have created a system that combines several forecasting methods into one, with that system predicting that McCain is expected to get 47.4 percent of the two-party vote, the lowest his expected vote has been all year.