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"The Fickle Financiers Of Elections?"

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Does where you live affect how you donate to political campaigns? That was the question Boise State assistant professor Jaclyn Kettler asked in her new study. The results are out in the August edition of the “Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties.” She looked at how more than 7,000 people donated in a U.S. House election. Then they looked again after those people had moved somewhere else. Did their donating habits change?

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