Alessio Albarello

1. Introduction “[Donald Trump] is the chaos candidate”, Jeb Bush lamented in December 2015, “…and our nominating system is a chaos process.” Part of this chaos rests with the fact that presidential primary elections confront voters with a unique set of challenges. First, voters cannot rely on partisanship cues to inform their votes. Primary candidates vie to represent one party in the general election and their policy views tend to be similar to one another.

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