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The Douglas Hibbs model, which doesn't include contemporaneous political factors, predicted a 45-seat pickup (PDF); the median pre-Labor Day forecast among political scientists compiled by John Sides was 43 seats; and the median pre-Election Day forecast among 538, Stochastic Democracy, and Sam Wang was 54 seats.

Brendan Nyhan: A First Take on Election 2010 Brendan Nyhan 2010

The Douglas Hibbs model, which doesn't include contemporaneous political factors, predicted a 45-seat pickup (PDF); the median pre-Labor Day forecast among political scientists compiled by John Sides was 43 seats; and the median pre-Election Day forecast among 538, Stochastic Democracy, and Sam Wang was 54 seats.

Brendan Nyhan: A First Take on Election 2010 Brendan Nyhan 2010

Again, Congress could have prevented this by being more conscientious during the pre-Election Day legislative session.

Movement Afoot To End Lame Duck Sessions Of Congress Jason Linkins 2010

Again, Congress could have prevented this by being more conscientious during the pre-Election Day legislative session.

Movement Afoot To End Lame Duck Sessions Of Congress Jason Linkins 2010

Again, Congress could have prevented this by being more conscientious during the pre-Election Day legislative session.

Movement Afoot To End Lame Duck Sessions Of Congress Jason Linkins 2010

That background gets spilled in pre-Election race-bait on tap at the moment.

Charles D. Ellison: The "New" Face of Voter Intimidation 2010

Again, Congress could have prevented this by being more conscientious during the pre-Election Day legislative session.

Movement Afoot To End Lame Duck Sessions Of Congress Jason Linkins 2010

This is, of course, the old "reluctant responder" hypothesis -- which, pre-Election Day, was trotted out to tell us why Obama couldn't win; and now Beam's using it to tell us, tacitly, why Obama didn't really win so big.

Obama won by MILLIONS MORE than we've been told 2009

But Cabinet Office Minister Liam Byrne's new blueprint to spend up to £1million a year of taxpayers' money on a pre-Election Government publicity offensive is a masterpiece of gobbledegook and jargon....

Life in the one eyed Scottish idiots Cool Britannia.- FIDO The Dog 2009

In fact, I thought so highly of Manjoo's reporting pre-Election Day that I was often guided by it in my own research for Fooled Again, and therefore even thanked him warmly in the book's acknowledgments (p. 349).

Mark Crispin Miller: Some Might Call It Treason: An Open Letter to Salon 2008