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From an academic perspective, Assistant Professor of Government D. Sunshine Hillygus, who teaches Government 1352, “Campaigns and Elections,” said the Bush victory had been expected by political scientists. Prior to the election, she asked her students to predict results in battleground states based on non-campaign factors such as party registration and economic indicators. Most of their predictions proved correct—a majority of the class predicted Florida and Ohio going to Bush...
According to Hillygus, students pondered whether things could have been done differently, asking questions like “What can be done in the future? Does this predict that Democrats have little chance at national office for some time...
...there are only two questions on everyone’s mind. They are simple questions, very much in the vein of what it means to be American: Who is going to win and how are they going to do it? Well, as I get my Miss Cleo on, I predict the winner of the 2004 election is going to be, despite his ineptitude as a campaigner and his seeming inability to connect emotionally to other human beings, John Kerry. Indeed, Kerry will unseat our current president thanks largely to the efforts of black voters and the hip-hop generation...
Yesterday, electoral-vote.com, a popular website that amasses daily data from statewide polls to predict the White House’s next occupant, ranked Harvard first among visits from university domains. With 14,735 visits as of Oct. 30, Harvard beat out much larger universities, and nearly doubled visits by fifth-place winner Yale...
...Lines Air travel without long queues and gridlocked terminals? It's a frequent flyer's dream. But IBM may be on the verge of making it a reality. The computer maker's Paris office this week begins marketing the PaxFlow Simulator, a hardware-software system it claims can predict the number of passengers at particular locations and times in an airport one week in advance...