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- <text id=91TT2645>
- <title>
- Nov. 25, 1991: Forward Spin
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 25, 1991 10 Ways to Cure The Health Care Mess
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 33
- Forward Spin
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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