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Volume 358:414-422 January 24, 2008 Number 4
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Health Care in the 2008 Presidential Primaries
Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D., Drew E. Altman, Ph.D., Claudia Deane, M.A., John M. Benson, M.A., Mollyann Brodie, Ph.D., and Tami Buhr, A.M.

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For the first time since 1928, neither the Democratic nor the Republican party has an incumbent president or vice president among the candidates in its field,1 so both primaries are particularly open to all challengers and very competitive. In this article, we report findings from public opinion polls that assessed how health care issues might affect voters' choices in the 2008 presidential primaries.

Previous research has shown that in primaries and caucuses, as in the general election, voters select their candidate on the basis of a number of factors such as stands on issues, perceived leadership ability, experience, character, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Methods

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Attitudes Concerning Health Care

Views of Likely Voters in Primaries

Discussion


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From the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (R.J.B., J.M.B., T.B.); the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA (R.J.B.); and the Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, CA (D.E.A., C.D., M.B.).

Address reprint requests to Dr. Blendon at the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave., 4th Fl., Boston, MA 02115, or at rblendon@hsph.harvard.edu.



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