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Do Swing Voters Matter?

By The Daily Dish
Oct 13 2008, 3:22 AM ET

Not much:

...in eight of the last nine elections, the winner could have lost swing voters but won the race. In a second test, which examined voters who were undecided at a later point in the race, Campbell found that the last campaign in which they were decisive was 1960.



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