An Incentive to Moderate in a Polarized Environment: Moderate Campaigns May Make More Successful Presidential Primary Candidates

• In Event: External Actors and Political Campaigns

Brief Overview

I examined presidential primary campaigns from 2000-2016 in order to address the following: Are candidates who previously served moderate constituencies more likely to win their party’s nomination for president, given campaigning advantages?

Author

• Will Patton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill