This study analyzed the impact that the passing of the Affordable Car Act in 2010 had on the direction of vote switching among voters that switched their vote from the 2008 presidential election to the 2012 presidential election. The hypotheses stated that that those that supported the ACA, did not have access to healthcare through their employer, and had an income below the national average were more likely to switch their vote from Senator McCain in 2008 to President Obama in 2012. Based on a logistic regression, the data shows that voters that support the ACA are more likely to switch their vote from Senator McCain to President Obama and that this was a statistically significant relationship. However, access to healthcare through their employer and income level were not statistically significant factors among those that switched their vote. Overall, these findings suggest that support for the ACA was a statistically significant factor in voters changing their votes from Senator McCain to President Obama and this suggests that the ACA did have an impact on vote switching from the 2008 to the 2012 presidential elections.
