Opinion towards Death Penalty and Feeling Thermometer Towards Democratic Presidential Candidate Introduction:
The research question that we are trying to address here is to find out whether an individual's Presidential candidate choice and opinion towards favoring the death penalty is associated. Although, The United Nations General Assembly has adopted, in 2007, 2008 and 2010, non-binding resolutions calling for a global moratorium on executions, with a view to eventual abolition, countries like China, India, USA etc. still continue to apply death penalty. In 2012 alone, 43 cases of capital punishment was recorded in the USA.[1] But, A recent Gallup poll found the lowest level of support for the death penalty in America since 1972.[2] The key objective of this study was to gauge whether this decreasing support towards death penalty have any association with their opinion towards the Presidential candidate in the 2012 elections.

Data:
The American National Elections Study (ANES 2012 time series data) was used for the purpose of this study. ANES study asked various questions regarding electoral participation, voting behavior and public opinion to a sample of US eligible voters, in two waves, pre and post election and the data was collected and recorder either by face-to-face interviews or over the internet. A processed version of this data-set can be found at the following location: http://bit.ly/dasi_anes_data [3] The data set contains a total of 5,914 cases and 205 variables where each case corresponds to an individual.Out of the 205 variables, the following variables has been chosen as our variables of interest to answer the research question at hand. 1. penalty_favopp_x : Opinion towards death penalty. Data type: Categorical Ordinal 2. ft_dpc: Feeling thermometer towards Democratic Presidential Candidate. Data type: Numerical The study undertaken here is