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The Impact Of A Candidates [Sic] Race On Voter Opinion, Yssis Patterson
The Impact Of A Candidates [Sic] Race On Voter Opinion, Yssis Patterson
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INTRODUCTION: Race has always played a significant role in politics. Identifying what degree race and/or political party identification has will help to further determine and explain the outsized significance of these factors in modern American politics.
HYPOTHESIS: We hypothesized that a candidate's race would have a significant impact on the way that a voter votes. Based on a candidate’s initial appearance and biographer, a voter may prefer one candidate over another simply based on an isolated variable.
METHODS: For this study, we conducted two surveys through Amazon M Turk. We asked a series of questions based on two candidates of …