Left-brained: Study suggests conservative Democrats don't compute for liberal voters
November 13, 2017 by Leslie Reed
Political partisans would like you to believe voters' heads will explode if faced with candidates crossing party lines on key policies - a Democrat who opposes abortion, say, or a Republican who supports gun control.
In a new study, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers found that self-identified liberals were more likely to notice when candidates deviated from the party line. Liberals also tended to take longer to react to inconsistent positions from Democrats. And in the majority of instances, they evaluated those inconsistent positions as "bad."
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-11-left-brained-democrats-dont-liberal-voters.html
