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The PollyVote Popular Vote Forecast for the 2020 US Presidential Election

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2020

J. Scott Armstrong
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Andreas Graefe
Affiliation:
Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Abstract

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Type
Forecasting the 2020 US Elections
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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