Nimmo contends that

A) voters respond automatically on the basis of their socioeconomic backgrounds or party loyalties to campaign messages.
B) voters construct their own individual view of the campaign by interpreting symbols offered to them by drawing upon their own experience.
C) campaigns make no difference in the way that people decide to vote.
D) campaigns are all lies and cannot be relied upon at all.
E) campaigns pay for themselves by the amount of free advertising they bring about.


B

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