Hood III, M.V. (Trey) and McKee, Seth C. (2016) Florida’s 2014 gubernatorial election shows how switchingparties can be the electoral kiss of death for candidates. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (02 Feb 2016). Website.
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Abstract
How do voters react to politicians who switch parties? Using the 2014 gubernatorial election in the swing state of Florida as a case study M. V. (Trey) Hood III and Seth C. McKee find that despite his positioning of himself as a moderate, when the state’s former Republican Governor Charlie Crist chose to run as a Democrat, most voters saw the switch as politically opportunistic rather than principled. This view then translated into a much lower likelihood that people would vote for the former Republican.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2016 The Authors, USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog, The London School of Economics and Political Science © CC BY-NC 3.0 |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States) |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2016 12:25 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 20:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/65820 |
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