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Obama and the Economy in 2008
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Obama and the Economy in 2008

Michael S Lewis-Beck and Richard Nadeau
PS, political science & politics, Vol.42(3), pp.479-483
06/26/2009
DOI: 10.1017/S1049096509090775

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Abstract

We believe the economy was much on voters' minds in the 2008 presidential election. More formally, a traditional economic retrospective voting theory—electors disapprove of past economic conditions and vote against the government—should serve well as an explanation of Obama's victory (Fiorina 1981; Lewis-Beck 1988, 34).

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