Turnout reached record highs in 2020. It's expected to be lower this year
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Turnout reached record highs in 2020. It's expected to be lower this year

NPR  

Turnout reached record highs in 2020. It's expected to be lower this year toggle caption Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images Turnout in 2020 was the highest since 1900: 160 million people voted, the most ever. Experts expect the turnout percentage to be lower this year for two reasons: Mail-in voting won’t be as widely available as it was during the pandemic, and some early voting windows have been curtailed. It seemed clear turnout would be significantly lower when it was Trump versus Biden, but with Harris in the race, Democratic enthusiasm and interest has increased. Sponsor Message Trump got more white, non-college voters to the polls in 2020, but they still voted at far lower rates than whites with degrees.

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How 5 key demographic groups voted in 2024: AP VoteCast
1 month, 2 weeks ago

How 5 key demographic groups voted in 2024: AP VoteCast

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump won the presidency after holding tight to his core base of voters and slightly expanding his coalition to include several groups that have traditionally been a part of the Democratic base. Trump picked up a small but significant share of Black and Hispanic voters, and made narrow gains with men and women. White voters were also …

Voter turnout for the 2022 elections was the 2nd highest for midterms since 2000
1 year, 7 months ago

Voter turnout for the 2022 elections was the 2nd highest for midterms since 2000

NPR  

Voter turnout for the 2022 elections was the 2nd highest for midterms since 2000 Enlarge this image toggle caption Lynne Sladky/AP Lynne Sladky/AP With 52.2% of adult U.S. citizens casting ballots, voter turnout for last year's elections was the second highest for a midterms since 2000, according to estimates the Census Bureau released Tuesday. The 2018 midterms — the first …

2020 changed how America votes. The question now is whether those changes stick
2 years, 1 month ago

2020 changed how America votes. The question now is whether those changes stick

NPR  

2020 changed how America votes. The question now is whether those changes stick Enlarge this image toggle caption David Becker/Getty Images David Becker/Getty Images The story of how 2020 changed voting in America has been well told by now: Whether it was 24-hour early voting sites or ramping up mail voting options, virtually every election jurisdiction in the country did …

Column: Trump isn’t on the ballot. But you can thank him for high voter turnout, again
2 years, 2 months ago

Column: Trump isn’t on the ballot. But you can thank him for high voter turnout, again

LA Times  

Former President Trump has helped drive turnout in several elections and is expected to do so again in this year’s midterm balloting. That’s more than the poll found at the same point in 2018, when 114 million voters cast ballots in the highest turnout rate for a midterm election since 1914. Which is why, as turnout expert Michael McDonald explained, …

Referendum on Trump shatters turnout records
4 years, 1 month ago

Referendum on Trump shatters turnout records

Associated Press  

With votes still being counted, turnout in the 2020 presidential election has hit a 50-year high, exceeding the record set by the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama — an extraordinary engagement in what amounted to a referendum on President Donald Trump’s leadership. Many of the states with the biggest turnout increases — including Arizona, Texas and Georgia — were …

US Election 2020: Record turnout likely with 100m votes already cast
4 years, 1 month ago

US Election 2020: Record turnout likely with 100m votes already cast

Daily Mail  

Nearly 100 million Americans have cast their early vote for Tuesday's presidential election. An astonishing 97.6 million ballots have already been submitted through in-person early voting and by mail Biden told voters in Pennsylvania that the very fabric of the nation was at stake and offered his own election as the firmest rebuke possible to a president whom he said …

Election Day 2020: What surge of early voters tells us (opinion)
4 years, 1 month ago

Election Day 2020: What surge of early voters tells us (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Sarah Isgur is a CNN political analyst. So, while a poll may accurately reflect the views of a representative sample of Floridian voters, it won’t be a good gauge of an election outcome unless it can also account for whether one candidate’s supporters are more likely to vote than the other. We saw this in 2016 when many …

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