Title: Issue voting - Wikipedia
Headings: Issue voting
Issue voting
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Causes
History of issue voting
Rise in issue voting
Complications regarding issue voting
Models of issue voting
See also
Notes
References

Content: During this election, two issues dominating attention were the economy and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many viewed these issues as equally salient, and had a hard time picking one issue to vote on. These three complexities in issue voting have provided problems in using this tactic to choosing candidates. A fourth problem is that voters may be unsophisticated and lack the knowledge necessary to vote based on issues. Political scientist Larry Bartels has argued that voters are generally uninformed and that their actual vote choices do not reflect the vote choices that a fully informed voter would make. He concludes that since voters lack full information, they cannot truly be issue voters. Models of issue voting
While scholars employ many mode