Do Presidential Candidates Still Matter? Assessing Valence and Policy Domain Differences Between Biden & Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election

• In Event: Issues, Valence, and the Spatial Model of Vote Choice

Brief Overview

I assess whether: 1) valence and policy differences across issues affected voting choice in 2020; and 2) whether the effect of a valence differential in favor of Joe Biden was conditioned his ideological positions across multiple dimensions.

Author

• Carlos Andres Algara, Claremont Graduate University