Politics & Policy

Though many Trump supporters say illegal immigration is a serious problem in the U.S. and want to build the wall, they are more divided on other questions.

Among voters who attend religious services at least once a month, relatively few say election information was made available to them in their places of worship.

No other democratic nation fills its top job quite the way the U.S. does, and only a handful are even similar.

Voters are far more pessimistic about progress in race relations under Donald Trump than they were after Barack Obama’s election eight years ago, and the shift has been particularly striking among blacks.

There were 91 reported aggravated or simple assaults motivated by anti-Muslim bias in 2015, just two shy of the 93 reported in 2001.

Nearly nine-in-ten voters who followed the 2016 returns (88%) did so on TV, while 48% used online platforms; 21% used social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

For most voters, the 2016 presidential campaign was one to forget.

A majority of U.S. adults (59%) reject the idea of adding interpretation, saying that the news media should present the facts alone

Broad economic concerns of rural white Americans aligned with cornerstones of the Trump campaign, and the gender gap played a key role in the 2016 narrative.

Despite double-digit decreases in U.S. violent and property crime rates since 2008, most voters say crime has gotten worse during that span.