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Paper provided by Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE in its series STICERD - Political Economy and Public Policy Paper Series with number 19.

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Keywords: Electoral competition; swing voter; partisanship; election closeness; USFederal Spending.;

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