Do Candidate Positions Matter? The Effect of the Gay Marriage Question on Gubernatorial Elections

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Do Candidate Positions Matter? The Effect of the Gay Marriage Question on Gubernatorial Elections

Ensley, Michael J. - Personal Name; Bucy, Erik P. - Personal Name;

This article demonstrates that candidate positions on the ballot measure to ban gay marriage had an effect on gubernatorial voting. With exit poll data from three states in 2006, we find that the effect of support for the ban is at least twice as large when the candidates adopted divergent positions. Support for the ban has a smaller but significant effect on vote choice when the candidate positions converge, which suggests an indiscriminate priming effect. These findings are supported with aggregate data from 45 gubernatorial races in 2004 and 2006. The analysis reveals that Republican candidates benefited if candidate positions diverged, with the Democratic candidates expressing opposition to the gay marriage ban.

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Series Title: American Politics Research
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Publisher: : sage publisher., 2010
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Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 1532673x
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Edition: Vol. 38 no. 1, January 2010. pp. 142-164
Subject(s): Voting
gubernatorial elections
Same-sex marriage
Ballot measures
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