The Dog that Didn't Bark: The Role of Canines in the 2008 Campaign
@article{Mutz2010TheDT, title={The Dog that Didn't Bark: The Role of Canines in the 2008 Campaign}, author={Diana C Mutz}, journal={PS Political Science & Politics}, year={2010}, volume={43}, pages={707-712} }
Using the most extensive dataset available on the 2008 election, I examine the impact of dog ownership on presidential vote preference. Canines were elevated to the status of a campaign issue when, during the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama publicly promised his daughters a dog after the election was over, a campaign promise that has since been fulfilled. However, this announcement appears to have unintentionally highlighted the absence of a key point of potential identification between this… Expand
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