Confronting 2016 and 2020 Polling Limitations
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.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Overall, there is little support for several of Donald Trump’s signature foreign policies across the 33 countries surveyed in 2019. Looking at the median levels of support across these countries, disapproval is strongest for Trump’s policies of the U.S. increasing tariffs or fees on imported goods from other countries, the U.S. withdrawal from international climate […]
Anderson, Monica and Phillip Connor. 2018. “Sub-Saharan African Immigrants in the U.S. Are Often More Educated Than Those in Top European Destinations.” Pew Research Center. Benderly, Beryl Lieff. Jan. 27, 2016. “Work program for recent foreign grads in legal limbo.” Science Mag. Cohn, D’Vera and Neil G. Ruiz. July 6, 2017. “More than half of […]
Some of the starkest partisan divides on political values are seen in views about race and immigration: Democrats are substantially more likely than Republicans to say that the country has not gone far enough to give black people equal rights and that white people benefit from societal advantages that black people do not have. Democrats […]