The American Trends Panel survey methodology The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. This report is based on interviews with respondents to nine survey waves of the panel conducted during 2020, including a post-election wave that measured turnout and vote choice in the […]
The COVID-19 pandemic hit Hispanics hard economically and took a substantial toll on the physical and mental health of the population. Yet most now say the worst of COVID-19’s effects are behind us. And their views about and the country’s direction and the situation of Hispanics in the country have improved markedly since December 2019, […]
Interest in the 2020 election has increased over the last month. Three-quarters of U.S. adults now say they are following news about candidates for the presidential election “very” or “fairly” closely, including 39% who are doing so very closely. That is up about 10 percentage points from early September, when 66% said the same. Attention […]
In March 2020, as the World Health Organization was declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic and its spread was accelerating in the U.S., Republicans and Democrats were paying similar levels of attention to news coverage of the outbreak. At that time, 53% of Democrats (including those who lean Democratic) were following news of the pandemic very […]