U.S. Elections & Voters

Trump’s approval rating has dropped among a range of religious groups, including white evangelicals – though they remain strongly supportive.

With less than five months until the 2020 elections, Americans are deeply unhappy with the state of the nation.

The share of Americans voting by mail has risen in recent presidential election cycles, but there is variation from one state to another.

With Election Day six months away, 52% of Americans are paying fairly close or very close attention to news about the presidential candidates.

Amy Mitchell (Pew Research Center), Philip Howard (University of Oxford), Jane Lytvynenko (Buzzfeed News) and Lori Robertson (Factcheck.org) discuss misinformation during the coronavirus outbreak, and ahead of the 2020 presidential election, as part of SXSW 2020's virtual sessions.

More than 11 million Asian Americans will be able to vote this year, making up nearly 5% of the eligible voters in the United States.

Overall, 70% of U.S. adults favor allowing any voter to vote by mail if they want to.

41% of Democratic registered voters say they are bothered that the likely Democratic nominee for the 2020 election is a white man in his 70s.

U.S. adults express wide concern that states will lift COVID-19 restrictions too quickly.

Roughly nine-in-ten or more U.S. adults say it is either somewhat or very important to have a president who lives a moral, ethical life.