Election 2016

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.

While a growing number of LGBT politicians have been elected to public office and attitudes toward the LGBT community have become much more favorable over the past decade, survey data suggest that being gay or lesbian remains an obstacle for candidates running for president.

In Florida, Cubans were about twice as likely as non-Cuban Latinos to vote for Donald Trump.

Survey report Beyond their disagreements over specific policy issues, voters who supported President-elect Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton also differed over the seriousness of a wide array of problems facing the nation, from immigration and crime to inequality and racism. And while voters generally said little progress has been made over the last eight years […]

There is a great deal of speculation but no clear answers as to the cause of the disconnect, but there is one point of agreement: Across the board, polls underestimated Trump's level of support.

Donald Trump's win followed a campaign that revealed deep divisions that were as wide and in some cases wider than in previous elections.

The 2016 presidential exit polling reveals little change in the political alignments of U.S. religious groups.