Charting Congress on Social Media in the 2016 and 2020 Elections
The 2020 election featured dramatic increases in lawmaker posts and audience engagement, but less overlap in the sources shared by members of each party.
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The 2020 election featured dramatic increases in lawmaker posts and audience engagement, but less overlap in the sources shared by members of each party.
As 2021 draws to a close, here are some of Pew Research Center’s most striking research findings from the past year.
Polling organizations have taken close looks at how election surveys are designed, administered and analyzed. We are no exception.
Black voters were more likely to say the 2020 election was administered very well both nationally and locally.
Americans voted in record numbers in last year’s presidential election, casting nearly 158.4 million ballots.
59% of Americans say made-up information that is intended to mislead causes a “great deal” of confusion about the 2020 presidential election.
If one takeaway from the election is historic voter participation, another may be the political polarization that has come to define the U.S.
53% of U.S. adults who voted in the general election say they engaged in at least 1 of 6 political activities over the past six months.
In studying voters’ views of election fraud, we found these views varied by whether people got their news from the Trump campaign.
Data tables from interviews we conducted with verified voters after the 2016 and 2018 elections may help answer some election 2020 questions.
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