Appendix H: Collapsed Categories for Open-Ended Responses

QUESTION: What do you think are the most important problems facing this country?

candidate]?

** significant at .05 level

***significant at .01 level

TABLE I.2: DEFENSE SPENDING Distance Measures

MODEL: Distance = Year	N	Intercept	Parameter Estimate		Standard Error	R2
DEFENSE SPENDING – Respondent Placements
R Defense Spending Self Placement	11	-0.090	0.002		0.024	.001
Democratic Party Position	10	-4.061	0.004		0.008	.026
Democratic Prez Cand Position	7	-25.009	0.014		0.014	.174
Republican Party Position	10	18.881	-0.006		0.010	.054
Republican Prez Cand Position	7	27.999	-0.011		0.022	.053
DEFENSE SPENDING - Respondent Relative Distance from Parties & Candidates
R – DP (Dem Party)	10	-9.697	0.005		0.020	.008
R – DPC (Dem Prez Cand)	7	34.820	-0.0117		0.024	.090
R – DHC (Dem House Cand)	-	-	-		-	-
R – DSC (Dem Sen Cand)	-	-	-		-	-
R – RP (Rep Party)	10	-22.809	0.011		0.025	.023
R – RPC (Rep Prez Cand)	7	-7.559	0.003		0.028	.003
R- RHC (Rep House Cand)	-	-	-		-	-
R – RSC (Rep Sen Cand)	-	-	-		-	-
DEFENSE SPENDING - Respondent Relative Partisan Proximity (Rep Distance – Dem Distance)
|R – RP| – |R – DP|	10	15.186	-0.008		0.016	0.027
|R – RPC| – |R – DPC|	10	-15.469	0.008		0.021	.028
|R – RHC| – |R – DHC|	-	-	-		-	-
|R – RSC| – |R – DSC|	-	-	-		-	-
DEFENSE SPENDING – Total Relative Partisan Distance (Rep Distance + Dem Distance)
|R – RP| + |R – DP|	-	-	-		-	-
|R – RPC| + |R – DPC|	7	76.156	-0.037		0.045	.118
|R – RHC| + |R – DHC|	-	-	-		-	-
|R – RSC| + |R – DSC|	-	-	-		-	-

* significant at .10 level

** significant at .05 level

***significant at .01 level

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