Click HERE for information on the DeSart and Holbrook Presidential Election Forecast Model I speak to you today not with any sense of futility, but with the panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence, which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. Woody Allen, in My Address to the Graduates
My Schedule Spring 2009
Class Schedule	M, W, F POLS 1100-001 American National Government 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM POLS 1100-004 American National Government 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM	Office Hours	M, W, F 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM     T, H   1:00 PM -  2:00 PM
	T, H POLS 3000 Political Analysis 2:30 PM -  3:45 PM
My Classes
Course Home Pages	POLS 1010 - Introduction to Political Science POLS 1100 - American National Government POLS 2120 - Political Parties POLS 3000 - Political Analysis POLS 3150 - Executive Branch POLS 3180 - Public Opinion and Political Behavior POLS 3200 - Legislative Process
My Research
Election Forecasting	My Election Forecasting Website Articles/ Papers "State and National Polls in Forecasting Presidential Elections" 2008 Western Political Science Association Meeting "Forecasting the 2006 Gubernatorial Elections: Post-mortem." 2007 Western Political Science Association Meeting "State Polls and National Forces: Forecasting in Gubernatorial Election Outcomes" 2006 Midwest Political Science Association National Meeting "Forecasting the 2004 Presidential Election with State Trial-Heat Polls" 2005 Midwest Political Science Association National Meeting "Statewide Trial-Heat Polls and the 2000 Presidential Election: A Forecast Model." Social Science Quarterly.  84: 561-573. "Using State Polls to Forecast Presidential Election Outcomes in the American States" 1999 International Journal of Forecasting.  15: 137-142.
My Links
UVU Pages	Jay A. DeSart - Professional Homepage Department of History and Political Science
Professional Political Science Organizations	American Political Science Association Midwest Political Science Association Southern Political Science Association Western Political Science Association American Association of Public Opinion Research

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