U.S. Elections & Voters

The share of Americans viewing illegal immigration as a ‘very big’ problem has increased.

Looking at final estimates of the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential race, 93% of national polls overstated the Democratic candidate’s support among voters, while nearly as many (88%) did so in 2016.

Polling organizations have taken close looks at how election surveys are designed, administered and analyzed. We are no exception.

An 85% majority of Democrats say everything possible should be done to make voting easy; 28% of Republicans say this.

Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to say prosecuting those who broke in on Jan. 6 is very important and that penalties for them will likely be less severe than they should be.

Given the errors in 2016 and 2020 election polling, how much should we trust polls that attempt to measure opinions on issues?

Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.

At least 76 of the voting members of the 117th Congress are foreign born or have at least one parent born in another country.

Unified government at the beginning of a president’s first term has been the norm, especially for Democratic presidents.

White eligible voters were somewhat more likely to say they were contacted than Black, Hispanic or English-speaking Asian eligible voters.