Issue Absorption and Candidate Valence in the 2020 and 2024 U.S. Presidential Elections

This Dataverse contains the replication materials for the manuscript “Issue Absorption and Candidate Valence in the 2020 and 2024 U.S. Presidential Elections.” The study examines how saturated partisan polarization reshapes electoral choice by analyzing immigration attitudes, partisanship, and candidate valence traits (competence and honesty) using the 2020 and 2024 American National Election Studies (ANES). Materials include replication code, documentation, and derived variables needed to reproduce the analyses reported in the paper. The original ANES survey data are publicly available from https://electionstudies.org.