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- GRAPEVINE, Page 33FORWARD SPIN
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- By SIDNEY URQUHART
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- THE POCKETBOOK INDICATOR. A reliable way to predict
- whether a President will be re-elected is to look at the growth
- in Americans' real disposable income -- essentially their
- spending money -- in the 12 months before the election,
- according to Robert Wescott, an economist at Wharton Econometric
- Forecasting Associates. His study of postwar elections shows
- that every time growth was less than 3.8%, the incumbent party
- lost the White House. If Wescott's prediction for 1992 holds up,
- Bush faces trouble.
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