Anxious Voters in the 2016 U.S. Election: An Analysis of How They Decided from the ERPC2016

How did anxiety influence voters' decisions in the 2016 presidential election? This study tests the hypothesis that voters who were anxious about their own party's candidate were less likely to vote based on partisanship and more likely to vote based on issue positions and candidate personal qualities. As part of the Election Research Preacceptance Competition 2016, this study was designed with the 2016 American National Election Study codebook before the data were released. Hence, the documentation of this study showed how the analysis of anxiety's conditioning effect on vote choice was to be completed once the data were gathered.