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Public Has Modest Expectations for Washington’s Return to Divided Government
Most voters are confident their vote was counted accurately
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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