U.S. Elections & Voters

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.

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.

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.