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We aim to fill a gap in the voter heuristic literature by estimating the impact of subparty cues—labels that connect candidates to an intraparty faction—on perceptions of candidates’ ideological positions. We argue that the Tea Party label acts as a subpartisan cue, and should affect perceptions of both Republicans and their Democratic op...
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... opinion Pew, 2013). As displayed in Table 1, Tea Party Republicans were seen by respondents to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) as "very conservative" to a much greater extent than other Republicans, prior to both the 2010 and 2012 elections. These findings suggest that the public did not view the Tea Party as simply an alternative name for the Republican Party, but rather as a more conservative wing of the Grand Old Party (GOP). ...
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... bars are the 95 percent confidence intervals, calculated using the simulation method. See Supporting Information Appendix Table A1 for the full probit model. ...
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... expected, candidates for the House of Representatives identified by the news media multiple times as part of the Tea Party are in fact perceived as more conservative than non Tea Party Republicans, regardless of the ideology of the candidate (see panel A of Figure 2; full models are included in Supporting Information Appendix Table A1). As shown in Figure 2, those in the 95th percentile are an average of 4 percentage points more likely to be perceived as conservative or very conservative. ...
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... to non Tea Party Senate candidates, those Tea Party candidates receiving over 843 Tea Party related news mentions (the 90th percentile for 2010 and 2012 Senate candidates) are an average of 7 percentage points more likely to be perceived as conservative or very conservative. Many of the control variables had a significant effect on ideological perceptions of both Republican House and Senate candidates and were in the expected direction (see Supporting Information Appendix Table A1). 6,7 These results support H1, the within-party extremism hypothesis-voters in districts with highly publicized Tea Party candidates are more likely to perceive Republican candidates as conservative, even when controlling for candidate ideology based upon campaign contributions from interest groups. ...
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... This ''hijacking'' vis-à-vis cross-endorsement with minor parties can affect how voters come to judge mainstream parties (e.g., Gervais and Taylor 2016;McKinley 2013). A candidate running as a Democrat will surely be considered by a typical voter to be left-of-center on a unidimensional ideological space, even if the voter knows nothing of the candidate's views other than their party affiliation. ...
