As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exits, a look at who supported him in the 2024 presidential race
Many of Kennedy’s July supporters decided to back Kamala Harris over Donald Trump by 2 to 1 after Biden withdrew from the race.
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Many of Kennedy’s July supporters decided to back Kamala Harris over Donald Trump by 2 to 1 after Biden withdrew from the race.
For the most part, Americans don’t think a woman president would do better or worse than a man when it comes to key leadership traits or the handling of various policy areas. At the same time, the public sees differences in the way men and women running for higher office are treated by the media.
Across 35 countries, there are some disconnects between how people rate the importance of free expression and how free they feel they actually are.
Respondents in 24 countries were asked about different forms of governance, including representative democracy, direct democracy, autocracy, technocracy and military rule. Views on representative democracy Elements of representative democracy are present in each of the countries surveyed. And although many express dissatisfaction with the way democracy is working in their country, majorities in all of […]
As people are exposed to more information from more sources than ever before, how they define and feel about “news” has become less clear-cut.
Pew Research Center has a long history of conducting surveys that examine the views of American voters. This analysis of Black voters’ views on political party affiliation, policy priorities and 2024 presidential candidates relies on data from four of these studies. Study 1: U.S. adults’ views on domestic policy priorities The first was conducted among […]
For this analysis, we grouped people into two political categories: those who support the governing political party (or parties) in their country, and those who do not. These categories were coded based on the party or parties in power at the time the survey was fielded and on respondents’ answers to a question asking which […]
A majority of Trump backers say more immigrants would make life worse for people like them, while most Harris backers say life wouldn’t change.
About seven-in-ten Americans say insurance companies have too much health policy influence, but partisans disagree on the CDC’s role.
Classifying parties as populist Although experts generally agree that populist political leaders or parties display high levels of anti-elitism, definitions of populism vary. We use three measures to classify populist parties: anti-elite ratings from the 2019 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES), Norris’ Global Party Survey and The PopuList. We define a party as populist when […]
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