A voter decides to vote against her existing member of Congress because, even though she is doing well financially, she feels the national economy is doing poorly. This thought process is called

a. the incumbency disadvantage. 
b. retrospective voting. 
c. pocketbook voting. 
d. prospective voting. 
 


b. retrospective voting. 

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