… Why does Sanders look similarly electable to leading moderates in polls against Trump? We fielded a 40,000-person survey in early 2020 that helps us look into this question with more precision. … Our data (laid out in an academic working paper here) also found what polls show: that Bernie […] Read more »
Sanders Says He’ll Attract a Wave of New Voters. It Hasn’t Happened.
It is the most politically provocative part of Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign pitch: that his progressive movement will bring millions of nonvoters into the November election, driving record turnout especially among disaffected working-class Americans and young people. And yet despite a virtual tie in Iowa, a narrow victory in New […] Read more »
California Issues Poll Reveals Voters’ Attitudes on New Voting Procedures and Political Reform
With less than two weeks before the March 3 Primary Election, many potential California voters surveyed still aren’t clear about new Voters’ Choice Act (VCA) voting procedures put into place for the first time in 15 California counties, according to a poll conducted by the USC Price School of Public […] Read more »
The State of the Democratic Primary Process
As the process for selecting a nominee for president gets underway, Democratic voters are generally positive about their top candidates for president. But they are only moderately confident that the Democratic Party’s nomination process is fair. … Voters in both parties are generally in agreement on the traits that make […] Read more »
Despite Iowa missteps, most Americans not worried about election security
Weeks after the Iowa caucuses dissolved into confusion over who won the first contest in the race to the White House, Americans are largely unfazed about election security, according to the latest poll from PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist. Roughly three-quarters of Americans — 72 percent — said they are […] Read more »
The 100 Million Project: The Untold Story of American Non-voters
As primary season heats up and voters cast their ballots during this presidential election year, the largest bloc of the electorate is a group of Americans that no politician has polled and who have seldom exercised their basic civic act – those who chronically do not vote. In an effort […] Read more »