Abstract
This article describes efforts to understand how partisan actors respond to electoral losses differently across party lines, leading to different decisions for future nomination contests. I further focus on the events of the spring and summer of 2024, in which both parties were offered compelling reasons to reject their expected presidential nominee (a criminal conviction and a poor debate performance) but only the Democrats followed that path, while Republicans reaffirmed their support for a damaged candidate. These events demonstrate the relative power the two party organizations have but also their overall orientations toward elections and electability.
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- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Prologue to 2024
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- Understanding the Message(s): Spending and Content of Political Advertising on Television in 2024
- Election Advertising on Meta, Google, and Snapchat in 2024
- From the Podium to the Press: Coverage of Kamala Harris’s 2024 Convention Address
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