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This article updates through the 1992 election the equation originally presented in Fair (1978) explaining votes for president. Conditional predictions of the 1996 election are also made.
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Fair, R.C. The effect of economic events on votes for president: 1992 update. Polit Behav 18, 119–139 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01498787
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