2020 election reveals two broad voting coalitions fundamentally at odds
If one takeaway from the election is historic voter participation, another may be the political polarization that has come to define the U.S.
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If one takeaway from the election is historic voter participation, another may be the political polarization that has come to define the U.S.
About six-in-ten registered voters in the five U.S. states where elections are conducted entirely by mail expect voting to be easy.
65% of Americans say the option to vote early or absentee should be available to any voter without requiring a documented reason.
A new study of posts on popular public Facebook pages about the early days of the Biden administration finds that the focus of these posts, as well as the assessments of the new president, differed widely by the ideological orientation of the pages.
We thought it would be valuable to combine our study of news coverage itself with data on people’s views about, and exposure to, that coverage.
Mail-in ballots accounted for just over half of this year’s primary votes cast in the 37 states (plus D.C.) for which data is available.
Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about the ease of voting and the broader integrity of the 2020 presidential election.
Most Americans (71%) have heard of a conspiracy theory that alleges that powerful people intentionally planned the coronavirus outbreak.
About six-in-ten Americans (62%) say they favor raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, including 40% who strongly back the idea.
Democrats are generally far more likely than Republicans to view several concerns, including COVID-19, as very big problems in the country.
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