-UN rhetoric in its domestic American fundraising appeals (Goldring, 1999).
The question remains, however, how a single interest group, or network of interest groups, can persistently block measures that have much wider public support? The answer that has most widely been offered is that the reason is the existence of a substantial pool of "single-issue voters" (Kates, 1992, p. 5). These are voters for whom some particular issue -- in this case, gun control -- is determinative, trumping all other issues. The implication is not that such voters are interested only in the "single issue," but that a candidate's stand on this issue overrides stands on all other issues in the voter's decision-making process. Thus, if such a voter agrees with Candidate A on gun control, while disagreeing with Candidate A on a host of other issues, and disagrees with Candidate B on gun control, while agreeing with Candidate B on a host of other issues, the voter will nevertheless vote for Candidate A.
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