THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Care Who Wins Congressional Election  1966-2004


                           '66  '68  '70  '72  '74  '76  '78  '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00  '02  '04 
 
      Not Much/Don't Know   42   **   35   **   43   **   57   48   44   **   47   **   53   44   43   38   48   39   33   34 
   Very Much, Pretty Much   58   **   65   **   57   **   43   52   56   **   53   **   47   56   57   62   52   61   67   66
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                       N  1289      1504      2508      2292 1404 1406      2159      1973 2056 1789 1714 1279 1807 1509 1210  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 6D.8
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "How much would you say that you personally cared about the way the
     elections (1996 and later: election) to the U.S. House of Representatives
     (1970,1974: to Congress) came out:  (1978 and later: Did you care)
     very much, pretty much, not very much or not at all?"
       


     This question is variable VCF0312 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset.
     Consult the Cumulative Data File codebook for complete question text and annotation.
     Weight variable VCF0009A was used to produce this table (see weight documentation).

     Table generated:  27NOV05