The News Craving
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By The Conversation Blessing-Miles Tendi , University of Oxford ; Ahmet T. Kuru , San Diego State University ; Ayesha Jalal , Tufts University ; Carl LeVan , American University , and Eduardo Gamarra , Florida International University Predicting the outcome of national elections can be a mug’s game. Polls are often wrong, and second-guessing how people will vote months down the line can leave even the most savvy election specialist with egg on their face. In short, there are too many unknowns – the state of the economy, late political shocks and even the weather on election day. What is known …