Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
This report uses age cohort groups that are defined as the decade when respondents were born. Decades are defined as the years sharing the same tens-place digit (e.g., the cohort born in the 1940s was born between Jan. 1, 1940, and Dec. 31, 1949). Data is shown for years when the majority of an age […]
Today, age is strongly associated with partisanship – and this pattern has been in place for more than a decade. The Democratic Party holds a substantial edge among younger voters, while the Republican Party has the advantage among the oldest groups. Neither party has a significant edge over the other among voters in their 40s […]
The types of platforms Americans turn to for election news differ by age, and partisans rely on different media outlets.