Eli McKown-Dawson is a contributor on the U.S. News Team and was previously a fall intern. He is an undergraduate student studying political science at Florida State University.
Recent polling by YouGov shows that Americans are largely divided on issues of campus speech, DEI initiatives, CRT programs, and state intervention in college curricula.
Unlike after the 2020 election, voter confidence after the 2022 election increased for both Democratic and Republican voters.
Party affiliation influences Americans’ policy opinions, choices at the ballot box, and feelings toward members of other parties.
About two in five U.S. adults think that states should be required to count all ballots by the end of Election Day (20%) or the day after the election (22%).
We combed through YouGov's survey archives since the start of 2020 and found 100 policies supported by a majority of Democrats and by a majority of Republicans.
While 46% of voters voted by mail in 2020, only 33% did so in 2022; 43% of voters voted in person on Election Day, while the remaining 25% voted early, in person.
Americans are almost evenly divided on whether people committing voter fraud or eligible voters being prevented from voting is a more widespread problem.
Voters are more likely to have voters as loved ones and to support the same candidates as their loved ones, and when they support different candidates most are willing to say so.
Americans tend to be more trusting of poll workers in their own community than outside of it.
According to a recent YouGov poll, 62% of Americans think that poll workers in their community are "somewhat trustworthy" or "very trustworthy."