U.S. Elections & Voters

Given the errors in 2016 and 2020 election polling, how much should we trust polls that attempt to measure opinions on issues?

Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.

At least 76 of the voting members of the 117th Congress are foreign born or have at least one parent born in another country.

Unified government at the beginning of a president’s first term has been the norm, especially for Democratic presidents.

White eligible voters were somewhat more likely to say they were contacted than Black, Hispanic or English-speaking Asian eligible voters.

Americans voted in record numbers in last year’s presidential election, casting nearly 158.4 million ballots.

No lame-duck session in the nearly 5 decades for which data is available has been as legislatively productive as that of the 116th Congress.

Social media activity by members of Congress changed in notable ways following the rioting at the Capitol by supporters of President Trump.

“Saddened, hurt, disgusted,” one woman in her 50s said. “Never thought I would see anything like this in my life.”

68% of the public does not want Donald Trump to remain a major political figure in the future.