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Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Polling organizations have taken close looks at how election surveys are designed, administered and analyzed. We are no exception.
In battleground states, Hispanics grew more than other racial or ethnic groups as a share of eligible voters.
Most Americans (71%) have heard of a conspiracy theory that alleges that powerful people intentionally planned the coronavirus outbreak.
In the 2016 general election, voters submitted nearly 33.5 million mail ballots, but more than 400,000 (1.2% of the total) weren’t counted.
Biden and Trump supporters tell us in their own words about America’s political divisions
Ahead of the first vice-presidential debate, Mike Pence and Kamala Harris elicit more negative than positive feelings from registered voters.
In every U.S. presidential election dating back to 1984, women reported having turned out to vote at slightly higher rates than men.
The share of Americans viewing illegal immigration as a ‘very big’ problem has increased.
In studying voters’ views of election fraud, we found these views varied by whether people got their news from the Trump campaign.
In 2018, 59% of U.S. adults said there were too few women in high political offices, including 69% of women and 48% of men who said this.
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