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Home Election 2008 Articles from APSA Journals Iowa: The Most Representative State?  Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Peverill Squire (PS: Political Science and Politics, January 2009) Symposium: Forecasting the 2008 National Elections PS: Political Science and Politics, October 2008 Editor's Introduction: Forecasting the 2008 National Elections  James E. Campbell On the Razor's Edge: The Forecast of the Primary Model  Helmut Norpoth The Job of President and the Jobs Model Forecast: Obama for '08?  Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Charles Tien Forecasting the 2008 Presidential Election with the Time-for-Change Model  Alan I. Abramowitz The Trial-Heat Forecast of the 2008 Presidential Vote: Performance and Value Considerations in an Open-Seat Election  James E. Campbell Leading Economic Indicators, the Polls, and the Presidential Vote  Robert S. Erikson and Christopher Wlezien Incumbency, National Conditions, and the 2008 Presidential Election  Thomas M. Holbrook Election Forecasting: The Future of the Presidency and the House  Brad Lockerbie Forecasting the 2008 Presidential Election: A Challenge for the Fiscal Model  Alfred G. Cuzán and Charles M. Bundrick Forecasting the 2008 U.S. House, Senate and Presidential Elections at the District and State Level  Carl Klarner The Playing Field Shifts: Predicting the Seats-Votes Curve in the 2008 U.S. House Elections  Jonathan P. Kastellec, Andrew Gelman and Jamie P. Chandler Symposium: Gender, Race, and the 2008 Presidential Election PS: Political Science and Politics, October 2008 “Seeing What Has Always Been”: Opening Study of the Presidency  Georgia Duerst-Lahti  Black Politics, the 2008 Election, and the (Im)Possibility of Race Transcendence  Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Melanye Price  Likeable? Effective Commander in Chief? Polling on Candidate Traits in the “Year of the Presidential Woman”  Barbara Burrell  “Should They Dance with the One Who Brung 'Em?” Latinos and the 2008 Presidential Election  Matt A. Barreto, Luis R. Fraga, Sylvia Manzano, Valerie Martinez-Ebers and Gary M. Segura  Gender in the 2008 Presidential Election: Two Types of Time Collide  Patricia Lee Sykes These archives contain selected articles for public view from the APSA journals American Political Science Review, PS: Political Science & Politics, and Perspectives on Politics. APSA journals are fully accessible online to APSA members and institutional subscribers.  For details, consult the membership pages of this site or information provided by your institution.  To view only the table of contents or abstracts from this or any APSA journal, please visit the website of our publisher, Cambridge University Press (http://journals.cambridge.org). These articles may be used for personal, non-commercial, or limited classroom use.  Permission for all other uses of this article should be directed to Cambridge University Press at permissions@cup.org.

Moderated by James A. Thurber (American University) Panelists were three authors of the October PS symposium on forecasting the national elections: James E. Campbell (State University of New York at Buffalo), Alan Abramowitz (Emory University), and Michael Lewis-Beck (University of Iowa).