ERIC Number: EJ784389
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Publication Date: 2008
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The Keys to the White House: Prediction for 2008
Lichtman, Allan
Social Education, v72 n1 p10-13 Jan-Feb 2008
The winds of political change are blowing through America in 2008 and will sweep the party in power from the White House next November. That is the verdict of the Keys to the White House, a prediction system that the author developed in collaboration with Vladimir Keilis-Borok, founder of the International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics. The author has been sharing with readers of "Social Education" predictions of presidential election results, based on the Keys, since Bill Clinton faced off against Bob Dole in 1996. The Keys model accounts for the popular vote winner of every American presidential election since 1860. It has correctly forecast in advance the popular vote winner of all six presidential elections from 1984 to 2004, usually months or even years prior to Election Day. The Keys to the White House, as of the beginning of January 2008, indicate that Democrats will win the popular vote in 2008, regardless of the identity of their party's nominee. (Contains 3 tables and 1 note.)
Descriptors: Elections, Prediction, Political Science, Presidents, Political Affiliation, Political Candidates, Governance, Federal Government, United States History
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