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American Military Political Behavior

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So, how do soldiers vote? We know more now than we did a decade ago, but we know less than we do about the general population. The short answer, though, is that soldiers vote much like most Americans and the usual demographic predictors are good. The slightly longer answer is that officers who tend to vote for Republicans while enlisted are more evenly divided in their support for the two major political parties.

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Inbody, D.S. (2016). American Military Political Behavior. In: The Soldier Vote. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137519207_10

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