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6 - How the Campaign Shapes Voters’ Decisions about the Candidates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

Kim L. Fridkin
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Patrick J. Kenney
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
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In this chapter, we develop a comprehensive model where we include assessments of each campaign event (e.g., September debate) and issue (e.g., election integrity, worries about COVID-19) when predicting overall evaluations of Biden and Trump in November as well as changes in feeling thermometer scores from September to November. These models show that views about the first presidential debate and attitudes toward major campaign issues (i.e., election integrity, COVID-19, social justice protests) explain views of the candidates in November and predict shifts in evaluations over the length of the campaign. Finally, we estimate changes in vote preference from September to November and we find that elements of the campaign (e.g., views about the presidential debate, support for social justice protests) produce important changes in vote preferences. In other words, we find strong evidence that the 2020 campaign mattered.

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Choices in a Chaotic Campaign
Understanding Citizens' Decisions in the 2020 Election
, pp. 147 - 163
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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