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i'm delight thad paul focused on people like professor allen abram wits for whom i have great add miraculousact, my crystal ball web site publishes him at least once a month. and this thursday we have the first glimpse of results of his model for 2012. so if you want to see the numbers, you can go to the crystal ball on thursday. but, look, alex, what allen and other modelers like jim campbell, professor jim campbell at sunni buffalo say, is that it's not that campaigns don't matter. of course campaigns have some effect. it's that the fundamentals drive the vast majority of the vote. most people don't believe this, but it's absolutely true. under 10% of the people who will actually show up at the polls in november right now are undecided. that's right, more than 90% of the people who vote have already made up their minds. will there be a few switchers? in 2008, 8% of the voters changed their minds. what was the net effect? zero. about the same number of obama supporters switched to mccain as mccain supporters switched to obama, and in the vast majority of cases they were switching back to th