Sympathy vote
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A sympathy vote is a vote given in an election to a candidate because of that candidate's apparent disabilities. It is believed[Citation Needed] that up to 3% of the votes given to Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election was sympathy votes, enough to have determined the outcome in favour of Sen. Obama.