A growing body of research has examined how candidates’ religion or sexual orientation affect voting likelihood among the U.S. public. No systematic study, however, has focused on the combined effect of these traits. We draw on the intersectionality literature to develop and test hypotheses for this neglected, but important, combination. Results from an original survey experiment conducted in late June 2019 demonstrate that all respondents, as well as the Republican subgroup, tend to disapprove of a gay, religious candidate relative to other options (i.e., gay, nonreligious; straight, religious; and straight, nonreligious). Even Democrats expressed little support except when a straight, religious candidate was the alternative. Our findings underscore the need to study how overlapping—rather than discrete—traits influence political views and behaviors. They also raise important questions about the future of U.S. identity politics. Efforts to rally Republican and Democrat voters by mixing particular types of traits may not be a very effective strategy.

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宗教和性取向如何影响对美国总统候选人的支持？调查实验的证据

越来越多的研究调查了候选人的宗教信仰或性取向如何影响美国公众的投票可能性。但是，没有系统的研究集中在综合这些特征的影响。我们利用交叉性文献来发展和检验关于这种被忽略但重要的组合的假设。2019年6月下旬进行的一项原始调查实验的结果表明，相对于其他选择（即同性恋，非宗教，异性恋，宗教和异性恋者），所有受访者以及共和党亚组都倾向于反对同性恋，宗教信仰的候选人。没有信仰）。甚至民主党人也表达了很少的支持，除非选择了一个直率的宗教候选人。我们的发现强调需要研究重叠特征而不是离散特征如何影响政治观点和行为。他们还对美国身份政治的未来提出了重要问题。