Teef asks: "What do you think people vote based on?"

Answer: A number of attitudinal and social factors are related to individual voting behavior. Among attitudinal factors, assessments of the personal characteristics of the candidates, evaluations of government performance, orientations on specific policy issues, party identification, and ideology are the primary determinants of candidate choice. For social factors, race, religion, region, and social class appear to be the characteristics that have most closely related to voting over the past several decades.
An individual candidate's agenda was not mentioned as a factor having anything to do with the outcome of elections.

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RTD