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Average Feelings Toward Presidential Candidates 1952-2004
  '52 '54 '56 '58 '60 '62 '64 '66 '68 '70 '72 '74 '76 '78 '80 '82 '84 '86 '88 '90 '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04
Democratic Candidate : .5 ** 0 ** .4 ** 1 ** -.1 ** -.6 ** .3 ** -.4 ** 0 ** 0 ** .4 ** .2 ** .2 ** 0
Republican Candidate : 1 ** 1.2 ** .9 ** -.7 ** .4 ** .5 ** .1 ** -.2 ** 0 ** .1 ** -.6 ** -.2 ** 0 ** -.3
Net Pro Dem. - Pro Rep. : -.5 ** -1.2 ** -.4 ** 1.7 ** -.5 ** -1.2 ** .2 ** -.2 ** 0 ** -.1 ** 1 ** .4 ** .2 ** .3

PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 7A.1
Source: The American National Election Studies
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FOR EXPLANATION OF SCALE SEE NOTE BELOW
2008 NOTE: Open-ended text has not yet been coded for 2008; a revision of open-end master codes was initiated as part of the 2008 study.

QUESTION TEXT:

"Now I'd like to ask you about the good and bad points of the two
candidates for President. Is there anything in particular about
{Democratic presidential candidate} that might make you want to vote
for him? What is that? Anything else?"
"Is there anything in particular about {Democratic presidential
candidate} that might make you want to vote against him? What is that?
Anything else?"
"Is there anything in particular about {Republican presidential
candidate} that might make you want to vote for him? What is that?
Anything else?"
"Is there anything in particular about {Republican presidential
candidate} that might make you want to vote against him? What is that?
Anything else?"


Graph of Average for:


Percent among demographic groups who responded:


 
 
NOTE: Affect (feelings) toward the Democratic presidential candidate is the
number of Democratic presidential candidate 'likes' minus the number of
Democratic presidential candidate 'dislikes.'
Affect (feelings) toward the Republican presidential candidate is the
number of Republican presidential candidate 'likes' minus the number of
Republican presidential candidate 'dislikes.'
The Net affect (Pro Dem. - Pro Rep.) toward presidential candidates is
the difference between two sums: the sum of Democratic candidate
'likes' and Republican candidate 'dislikes' MINUS the sum of Democratic
candidate 'dislikes' and Republican candidate 'likes.'

This question is variable VCF0403 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: 16AUG10)


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