Race and the Tea Party in the Old Dominion: Split-Ticket Voting in the 2013 Virginia Elections

Hood, M. V.; Kidd, Quentin; Morris, Irwin L.

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“…But now, similar to other recent studies (see Hood, Kidd, and Morris 2015;Hood and McKee 2015), it no longer appears that a candidate's race weighs as heavily in the voting calculus. Rather, in a period of highly polarized political parties, the most important litmus test seems to be ideological purity.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…In effect, race is rendered irrelevant and instead ideology drives political behavior. On the flip side, another study found that in one particular analysis of vote choice, African-Americans were significantly less likely to vote for the black Republican Lieutenant Governor nominee E. W. Jackson in Virginia in 2013 (Hood, Kidd, and Morris 2015). But Jackson's abrasive demeanor sharply contrasts with the relatively softer styles displayed by Haley and Scott.…”

Section: Research On Minority Republicansmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Similarities and Differences in Support of Minority and White Republican Candidates

Huffmon

Knotts

McKee³

2016

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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History has shown that voters tend to support candidates of their own race. This reality has proven particularly challenging for black candidates who have often had difficulty running for office in majority white electorates. However, the vast majority of research on this topic has focused on minority Democrats, not minority Republicans. In this study, we take advantage of a unique set of circumstances in South Carolina's (SC's) 2014 elections where voters had the opportunity to cast ballots for an Indian-American Republican Governor and an African-American Republican Senator. Additionally, the presence of a white Republican Senator seeking reelection provides an important comparison case for determining if there is significant variation in support of these candidates given their different racial profiles, but shared party affiliation. Using unique data from The Winthrop Poll, we find that the determinants of approving of, and voting for, minority Republican candidates, are quite similar to support for the white Republican candidate. It appears that party and ideology are foremost in guiding approval and vote choice decisions among voters in contemporary American politics. Hence, even in SC, support for minority Republicans approximates that given to a white Republican.

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confidence: 80%

Section: Research On Minority Republicansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Similarities and Differences in Support of Minority and White Republican Candidates

Huffmon

Knotts

McKee³

2016

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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“…Others who conclude African American Republican candidates would help attract African American votes include Philpot (2007), Schildkraut (2013), Herron and Sekhon (2005), and Whitby (2007). Those who suggest Republicans would have little or nothing to gain by fielding African American Republican candidates include Fraga (2016); Kidd, Diggs, Farooq, and Murray (2007); Hood, Kidd, and Morris (2015); and Wehrkamp and Jeffries (2014). 4…”

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Can Republican African Americans Win African American Votes? A Field Experiment

Niven

2017

Journal of Black Studies

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In the face of its 2012 defeat and looming demographic trends that did not bode well for the party's future presidential candidates, the Republican National Committee officially declared its intention to recruit more African American candidates for office. But will fielding more African American candidates likely attract more African American votes for Republicans? Here, I employ a field experiment using real candidates and real votes cast in two down-ballot races featuring African American Republican candidates. Among voters who received mailings highlighting both race and party, African American voters responded primarily to party, in the process largely rejecting these two candidates. By contrast, African American voters responded more favorably when they learned the race, but not the party, of these candidates. The results here suggest something of a self-affirming political preference order in which African Americans felt affirmed by voting for a fellow African American, but only when they did not see that candidate as conflicting with a more central aspect of their political identity.

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“…After all, the institutions in question do have some of the same substantive implications; being linked on the ballot likely increases gubernatorial candidates’ interest in lieutenant-gubernatorial candidate characteristics, which may influence candidate-selection processes and outcomes. Indeed, recent work on lieutenant-governor candidates has focused on ticket splitting when the two offices run separately—especially in the context of descriptive representation of discriminated-against groups (Hood, Kidd and Morris 2015). Furthermore, the pool of candidates willing to put themselves forward for an independent race may differ from that of those comfortable campaigning on a joint ticket.…”

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Gender, Partisanship, and Candidate-Selection Mechanisms

Hennings

Urbatsch

2016

State Politics Policy Q.

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How candidates are selected, such as through nomination by party elites or election by primary voters, potentially influences the underrepresentation of women in political office. Partisan differences suggest that primary voters in right-leaning parties might select fewer female nominees than would their left-leaning counterparts even if both parties' elites are equally likely to select female nominees. This hypothesis is confirmed by an analysis of lieutenant governors in the United States, a position that varies in whether candidates are appointed by party elites or elected by primary voters. In cases where lieutenant-governor candidates are appointed, Democratic and Republican gubernatorial nominees are equally likely to choose female running mates; where primary voters select the lieutenant governor, Republicans are less likely to nominate women.

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Race and the Tea Party in the Old Dominion: Split-Ticket Voting in the 2013 Virginia Elections

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Similarities and Differences in Support of Minority and White Republican Candidates

Similarities and Differences in Support of Minority and White Republican Candidates

Can Republican African Americans Win African American Votes? A Field Experiment

Gender, Partisanship, and Candidate-Selection Mechanisms

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