Retrospective voting is when voters evaluate an incumbent's past performance in office to determine whether to vote for that candidate again. This means they are looking back at what the incumbent has accomplished or failed to accomplish and using that as a cue for their vote decision.

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Retrospective Voting

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Retrospective voting

A) posits that evaluation of an incumbent's past performance in office provides important cues for voters in deciding whether to vote for that candidate.
B) posits that candidates who have more favorable images than their opponents among voters tend to fare much better in election contests.
C) posits that when a particular issue captures the attention of many people in the electorate, voters are more likely to use a candidate's position on that issue to form a vote decision.
D) posits that issue voting occurs more often when an issue is of particular personal concern to a voter.
E) posits that in making a choice, voters examine the past career of the challenger to the incumbent president.

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