Abstract
The issue of gender differences in voting behavior and policy attitudes has been a recurrent theme in social science literature and political commentary in the United States. In presidential and many congressional elections, for instance, women have been observed to disproportionately support Democratic candidates, compared to men. The size of this gender gap has often been bigger than the margin of victory for Democratic candidates in congressional as well as in the 1992 and 1996 presidential races. As a result, appeals designed to attract female voters have become widespread (Manza and Brooks, 1998).
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