Testing the Racializing Influence of Romney's Welfare Ad
Race has recently taken center stage in the presidential campaign. From Joe Biden’s suggestion that a Romney-Ryan presidency would re-enslave African-Americans, to some liberal ...
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Do Presidential Gaffes Matter for People Paying Attention?
John Sides has done an excellent job throughout this campaign season documenting how Americans are often unaware of the ostensibly game-changing moments that the ...
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The Spillover of Racialization into Same-Sex Marriage
As discussed in a previous post, several recent studies show that political evaluations are increasingly polarized by racial attitudes after becoming associated with Barack ...
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The Increased Influence of Attitudes towards Homosexuals on Presidential Approval
A long line of social science research suggests that the more attention campaigns and the media pay to a particular aspect of political life ...
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Partisan Activation (Not Defection) in Recent Romney Ratings
John Sides recently highlighted polling conducted by Gallup and PPP, which shows a growing polarization of Romney evaluations by party identification since he became ...
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The Spillover of Racialization into Evaluations of Bo Obama
As mentioned in a previous Model Politics post, racial attitudes remain a much stronger predictor of attitudes towards Barack Obama than previous presidential candidates. ...
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Racial Attitudes and Whites' Opinions about the Trayvon Martin Case
As discussed earlier on this site, a nationally representative survey of Americans conducted last week by YouGov (n=1,000) uncovered significant racial differences in respondents’ ...
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The Political Divide between Authoritarian and Permissive Pet Owners
I’ve always thought that you can learn a lot about people by how they treat their pets. Well, it turns out that you can ...
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Evangelical Opposition to Romney NOT Rooted in Anti-Mormonism
Media speculation abounds that Mitt Romney’s poor performance among Evangelical voters in the 2012 Primaries is rooted in anti-Mormonism—a sentiment that will surely intensify ...
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Moral Conservatives Spark the Santorum Surge
Rick Santorum’s meteoric rise in the national polls following his surprise February 7th wins in Minnesota, Missouri and Missouri naturally begs the question, “Where ...
