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1) Predicting the winner: the untold story of election night 1952 and the dawn of computer forecasting
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English
Description
"Predicting the Winner is a riveting narrative about election night 1952, when Dwight David Eisenhower won in a landslide and was elected president of the United States"--
"The history of American elections changed profoundly on the night of November 4, 1952. An out-of-the-box approach to predicting winners from early returns with new tools-computers-was launched live and untested on the newest medium for news: television.Like exhibits in a freak...