Board #15 - Stay in Your Lane: How Media Narratives Reflect Voter Preferences in U.S. Presidential Primaries

• In Event: 72-306 - Poster Session: Electoral Institutions and Democratic Resilience

Brief Overview

This project examines whether media narratives in U.S. presidential primaries reflect the structure of voter preferences. Using text analysis and cluster methods, it evaluates when media-defined categories align with underlying voter coalitions.

Author

• Avery Shaw Franks, Northwestern University