What 2020’s Election Poll Errors Tell Us About the Accuracy of Issue Polling
Given the errors in 2016 and 2020 election polling, how much should we trust polls that attempt to measure opinions on issues?
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
A living database of political communication In 2015, Pew Research Center launched an initiative to study political rhetoric on a large scale by building an ever-expanding database of political social media activity across multiple platforms, starting with Facebook and now including Twitter. To support this effort, researchers have spent hundreds of hours collecting, cleaning and […]
The public is sharply divided by party, even as most support international cooperation and large majorities say it is important that the U.S. is respected around the world.
With about seven months until the general election, similar shares of registered voters say they would vote for Joe Biden (47%) or Donald Trump (45%) if the election were held today; 8% of voters say they wouldn’t vote for either or would vote for someone else. At this very early stage of the general election […]
As the U.S. confronts the coronavirus outbreak, Americans continue to rate a wide range of federal agencies favorably, including two at the forefront of dealing with COVID-19.