Variable catalog Variable RBa03 detail

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R — Voting behavior and attitudes

RB — Primary election

RBa — Intended primary vote

 

RBa03

 

Candidate would vote for this week in Democratic primary

 

Schedule

Wave 1

Wave 2

Wave 3

 

 

 

 

 

Date bar

 

 

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All dates

All dates

4/2/08 – 6/10/08

 

 

 

 

 

Filter

If think of self as Democrat or lean Democrat

MA01 = 5 – 7

 

If you had to choose this week to vote for one of the primary candidates to be the presidential nominee for the Democratic party, which candidate would you vote for?

 

1

{Wave 1; Wave 2 1/1/08 – 1/3/08 : Joe Biden}

2

Hillary Clinton

3

{Wave 1; Wave 2 1/1/08 – 1/3/08 : Chris Dodd}

4

{Wave 1; Wave 2 1/1/08 – 1/29/08 : John Edwards}

5

{Wave 1; Wave 2 1/1/08 – 3/4/08 : Mike Gravel}

6

{Wave 1; Wave 2 1/1/08 – 1/24/08 : Dennis Kucinich}

7

Barack Obama

8

{Wave 1; Wave 2 1/1/08 – 1/9/08 : Bill Richardson}

999

Skipped

 

Due to a data collection error, this variable was not measured for respondents in Waves 1 and 3 who were asked political orientation in the current interview (MA08) and who have a value of not-strong Democrat in MA01.

 

Data columns

Name

Codes

Width

Wave 1:

RBa03_1

1 – 8, 999

3

Wave 2:

RBa03_2

1 – 8, 999

3

Wave 3:

RBa03_3

2, 7, 999

3