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December 1, 2022

Public Has Modest Expectations for Washington’s Return to Divided Government

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Public Has Modest Expectations for Washington’s Return to Divided Government
Most Americans don’t expect either Biden or Republican leaders in Congress to be successful getting their policies passed into law over the next two years
Few Americans expect an improvement in partisan relations in the coming year
Most Republicans and Democrats are optimistic about their party’s future, but pessimism has increased
Most Republican voters say they were voting ‘against’ Biden; most Democratic voters say Biden wasn’t much of a factor
Election Day voting up from 2020
Older voters were more likely than those under 65 to vote before Election Day
American Trends Panel recruitment surveys
Invitation and reminder dates
Weighting dimensions
Unweighted sample sizes
Response rates
GOP voters’ views of election administration improve compared with 2020, remain lower than 2018
More Democratic than Republican voters say they are confident in-person votes were counted accurately
Majority of GOP voters still are not confident mail ballots were counted accurately, but less skeptical than 2020
Most voters are confident their vote was counted accurately

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