Voters link increases in gas prices to the upheaval in the Middle East, as Libya follows Iraq and Afghanistan on the list of American military commitments.
When Harris Interactive, a pollster, last month tested words that voters link with the president, by far the most common was "taxes".Having campaigned for office on a promise to slap a 75% tax rate on the rich, Mr Hollande has now called for a "tax pause".
But in the waning days of the campaign, Mr. Lazio's supporters in the State Republican Party made a telephone calls to voters that linked Mrs. Clinton's donors to the terrorism attack on an American warship in Yemen, angering many voters, who considered the tactic over the top.
A Public Religion Research Institute analysis combined data from four independent surveys conducted between Sept. 22 and Oct 17 to see how the preferences of likely voters were linked to their religious affiliation.
Low voter turnout linked to negative favorability numbers could result in a Republican victory in 2016, and when CBS News writes that within the Democratic Party "fourteen percent would not support" Hillary Clinton in an election, negative favorability is the culprit.
However, there is at least one major difference between this kind of market research and political polling: Consumers are less likely than voters to link together various characteristics when making choices.
After supporters expressed concern to The Boston Globe that her previous ads failed to connect her on a personal level with voters or link her to Massachusetts, the new ad is about as Massachusetts as you can get.
To woo middle-class voters, Democrats link trade to the loss of three million jobs during the Bush administration -- even though experts are split on the number of jobs lost to trade rather than to, say, new technology or increased productivity.
Instead, he exaggerates the effect with the intention of polarising voters by linking $50bn tax breaks to "the big banks", by talking about billion dollar companies being classified as small business, and of negatively gearing as a "tax subsidy for people who own 10 houses to buy their 11th".
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