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30; Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2000, p. A1; USA Today, September 15, 2000, p. 8A; Newsday, September 19, 2000, p. A4; Christian Science Monitor, September 19, 2000, p. 1; Newsweek, October 16, 2000, p. 44; Boston Herald, October 19, 2000, p. 31; The Washington Post, October 20, 2000, p. A1; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 21, 2000, p. A5; Omaha World-Herald, October 22, 2000, p. 1A; The New York Times, October 25, 2000, p. A22; The Boston Globe, October 25, 2000, p. A24; Atlanta Journal and Constitution, October 26, 2000, p.
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There was, however, never any agreement as to how to operationalize this concept (Lazarsfeld and his collaborators, 1948, tended to look at demographic characteristics; the Michigan school used attitudinal data), and almost the only empirical finding of this work was that cross-pressured voters tended to be late deciders. For reasons that are not immediately clear, more recent voting studies have almost entirely ignored the concept. The term appears nowhere in Nie, Verba, and Petrocik (1976), Fiorina (1981), or Miller and Shanks (1996).
