Politics
3. American voters’ expectations for voting this year
A majority of registered voters (62%) say they will or already have cast their ballot in person in the 2024 general election, with 38% planning to vote on Election Day and 24% planning to vote at an early voting location (or already having done so). Meanwhile, 28% of voters say that they expect to cast…
Read More2. Confidence in voting access and integrity; expectations for whether and when the election results will be clear
Ahead of the November election, voters overwhelmingly express the importance of several items related to voting access and the outcome of the election. Wide majorities of voters say it is very or somewhat important that: And while sizable majorities of supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump both view these objectives…
Read More1. Views of election administration and confidence in vote counts
Most voters say that the 2024 election will be run and administered well, both in their community and across the U.S. And while confidence in election administration across the country is up since 2020, it remains lower than it was before the 2018 midterms. Harris voters are more positive than Trump voters in their predictions…
Read MoreHarris, Trump Voters Differ Over Election Security, Vote Counts and Hacking Concerns
90% of Harris voters, versus 57% of Trump voters, are confident the 2024 election will be administered well. The post Harris, Trump Voters Differ Over Election Security, Vote Counts and Hacking Concerns appeared first on Pew Research Center.
Read MoreMethodology
The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 154 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from Sept. 3 to 15, 2024. A total of 6,204 panelists responded out of 8,216 who were sampled, for…
Read More6. How men and women rate their own masculinity and femininity
To understand how U.S. adults see their own masculinity and femininity, we asked men and women to rate themselves on two scales: We then subtracted ratings on the femininity scale from ratings on the masculinity scale to come up with an overall rating for each respondent. For example, if someone rated themselves a 4 on…
Read More5. How Americans see differences between men and women
Most Americans, including majorities of men, women, Republicans and Democrats, say men and women are different in many ways. But there are gaps by gender and partisanship when it comes to views of whether biology or societal expectations are driving these differences. About two-thirds of U.S. adults or more say men and women are basically…
Read More4. Views of the impact of changing gender roles
We asked Americans a series of questions about changing gender roles for men and women. First, we asked if society is too accepting or not accepting enough of men and women who take on roles typically associated with the other gender. On balance, the public thinks society is not accepting enough of men and women…
Read More3. Views on the progress men and women have made in different areas
Women in recent decades have made significant progress in higher education and in the workplace. But they continue to lag behind men when it comes to wages and to representation in top leadership roles. At the same time, certain groups of men have struggled in the labor force and seen little or no growth in…
Read More2. Behaviors people find acceptable and unacceptable in men
When it comes to how Americans view certain behaviors in men, most say they personally think it’s not too or not at all acceptable for men to: Four-in-ten also think it’s unacceptable for men to play video games on a regular basis. Another 22% say this is extremely or very acceptable, and 37% find it…
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