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Assignment

Identify a quote from one of this week's readings that resonated with you. Why did you find this particular quote so impactful or noteworthy?

Note: Reaction posts should be approximately 2 paragraphs in length. Responses to other students do not have a length requirement but serve as your participation grade (i.e., the more thorough the better).

Response to student

One quote that stood out to me was in Chapter Six from Hershey, page 125, "Now even though party loyalties have regained much of their influence, candidates still tend to downplay their partisanship as a means of attracting voter support."

This stood out to me because in a number of ways we as voters see candidates by their party and often times not as the individual. Although candidates might not reinforce or reiterate that they are a Democrat or Republic, we as voters are trained through the media and by our social relationships to see these individuals as a party.

While candidates want there to be a strong following from the party that they are representing, they are wanting to downplay it in hopes of gaining undecided voters or turning voters from the other party.

Another way this stood out to me was in relation to the Si Se Puede article. In that article, the results found that in Latino communities they were more likely to vote for someone of the same ethnic background as them.

Whereas, in white or black communities the vote for a Latino candidate was much lower. I found this interesting because of the party ties that it can have. According to the data, a Latino voter is more likely to vote for a Latino candidate regardless of party affiliation.