To Moderate, or Not to Moderate: Strategic Media Sharing by Congressional Campaigns

• In Event: Congressional Elections and Campaigns

Brief Overview

We use strategically shared media on Twitter to estimate granular measures of the ideology of congressional candidates running in 2020 to test if they moderate their message following a successful primary as they look forward to the general election.

Authors

• Maggie Macdonald, New York University

• Rich Bonneau, New York University

• Joshua A. Tucker, New York University

• Jonathan Nagler, New York University