Average Feeling Thermometer Rating Toward Congressional Candidates 1978-2020
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'78 | '80 | '82 | '84 | '86 | '88 | '90 | '92 | '94 | '96 | '98 | '00 | '02 | '04 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | '18 | '20 | |
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Democratic Candidate | 64 | 61 | 62 | 59 | 64 | 62 | 65 | 60 | 56 | 55 | 59 | 59 | 57 | 60 | ** | 58 | ** | 53 | ** | 54 | ** | 54 |
Republican Candidate | 62 | 60 | 59 | 57 | 58 | 57 | 59 | 54 | 58 | 57 | 57 | 58 | 58 | 58 | ** | 56 | ** | 52 | ** | 54 | ** | 52 |
Both Dem. & Rep. Cands | 59 | 57 | 58 | 56 | 57 | 56 | 58 | 55 | 54 | 56 | 56 | 55 | 56 | 56 | ** | 55 | ** | 51 | ** | 52 | ** | 52 |
Incumbent Candidate | 68 | 65 | 65 | 62 | 66 | 65 | 66 | 61 | 60 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 60 | 65 | ** | 60 | ** | 47 | ** | 59 | ** | 57 |
Challenger Candidate | 53 | 52 | 54 | 50 | 22 | 49 | 53 | 50 | 52 | 50 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 51 | ** | 58 | ** | 56 | ** | 49 | ** | 48 |
Table 8A.1.
Source: VCF0906,VCF0907,VCF1017,VCF0908,VCF0909 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset,
weighted with VCF0009z
Link to see data by mode (2012, 2016)
Percent among demographic groups who responded:
Democratic Candidate
Republican Candidate
Both Dem. & Rep. Cands
Incumbent Candidate
Challenger Candidate
Note:
This uses the 0-100 thermometer scores.
The score for 'Both Dem. & Rep. Cands' is produced by adding the
Republican and Democratic Congressional candidate thermometer ratings
and then dividing the sum by 2.
All results are rounded to the nearest integer.
2012 data are for the combined (face-to-face and internet) sample.