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The Hill: Popular candidate running for important office brings out more partisans voters

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Release Date: October 13, 2009

An article in The Hill about the effect state governor's races could have on Senate and House elections in 2010 quotes James E. Campbell, professor and chair of political science, who said that while the impact is less than in a presidential race, having a popular candidate at the top of the ticket can have a pronounced effect.