NEW: We look back on the findings and key takeaways from our American News Pathways project (conducted from November 2019 through December 2020) in our new analysis. (THREAD 1/)journalism.org/2021/02/22/how…
24% of Republicans consistently turned only to news sources with right-leaning audiences in at least 2 of 3 Pathways surveys, and 25% of Democrats chose only sources with left-leaning audiences. 2/ journalism.org/2021/02/22/abo…
Republicans and Democrats using news with like-minded audiences tend to describe their views as more ideologically consistent. 3/ journalism.org/2021/02/22/abo…
The group of Republicans that consistently turned to only outlets with like-minded audiences is much older than the other groups 79% are 50 and older, while just 4% of the group are ages 18 to 29. 4/ journalism.org/2021/02/22/abo…
Democrats who consistently used only news outlets with left-leaning audiences to get political news during the past year have much higher levels of education than Democrats with other news consumption habits. 5/ journalism.org/2021/02/22/abo…
Republicans who relied most on Trump and his coronavirus task force for news about the pandemic were more likely than other Republicans to say the U.S. had controlled the outbreak as much as it could have. 6/journalism.org/2021/02/22/rep…
Republicans who used Trump and his campaign as a major source for election news were much more likely see voter fraud as a major problem than Republicans who did not (61% vs. 36%) 7/ journalism.org/2021/02/22/rep…
Even a year before the 2020 election, in November 2019, the vast majority of Americans said they were either “very” (48%) or “somewhat” (34%) concerned about the impact made-up news could have on the election. 8/ journalism.org/2021/02/22/mis…
What Americans categorize as made-up news varies widely – and often aligns with partisan views. 9/ journalism.org/2021/02/22/mis…
While many Americans get news on social media, the public as a whole largely distrusts these platforms as a source for political news. For example, 59% of U.S. adults said they distrusted Facebook as a place for political news. 10/ journalism.org/2021/02/22/ame…
Americans who turn to social media for their news tend to be less engaged with that news than others. They were less likely to say in June 2020, for example, that they had been closely following news about the 2020 election candidates or the coronavirus outbreak. 11/
Americans who mostly turn to social media for their news lag behind Americans who turn to most other sources of news in their knowledge and understanding of national politics, current events, and the COVID-19 pandemic. 12/ journalism.org/2021/02/22/ame…
These are just a few of the takeaways from our American News Pathways project (conducted from November 2019 through December 2020). See more in our new report (13/13): journalism.org/2021/02/22/how…
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We’ll be sharing findings about Black Americans for #BlackHistoryMonth in this thread. First up: a recent post examining the slow but steady progress Black Americans have made in gaining a greater foothold in U.S. political leadership. pewrsr.ch/3pEdKkP
About three-quarters of Black adults say that being Black is important to how they think about themselves, and 81% feel connected to a broader Black community in the U.S. pewrsr.ch/3aDnntN#BlackHistoryMonth
Across our surveys, Black social media users have been particularly likely to say that social media sites are personally important to them for getting involved with issues they care about or finding like-minded people. pewrsr.ch/3tdxzl0#BlackHistoryMonth
NEW: 23% of U.S. Hispanics have heard of the gender-neutral pan-ethnic label, Latinx, but just 3% say they use it to describe themselves. 1/ pewrsr.ch/2F9F7AB
Awareness of the term Latinx varies across Hispanics – young Hispanics, those with college experience, those born in the U.S. and those who predominantly speak English are the most likely to have heard of it. 2/ pewrsr.ch/2F9F7AB
There are also partisan differences: Hispanics who identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party are more likely to have heard of Latinx than those who identify with or lean toward the Republican Party (29% vs. 16%). 3/ pewrsr.ch/2F9F7AB
NEW: Overwhelming majorities of both Republican and Democratic voters have retained their party affiliation over the past two years, a tumultuous period marked by a global pandemic, mass protests against racial injustice and a presidential impeachment. 1/ pewrsr.ch/2DjjRrH
About one-in-ten voters (9%) who identified as or leaned Republican in September 2018 now identify as Democrats or lean Democratic. An identical share of voters (9%) who two years ago identified as Democrats or leaned Democratic now align with the GOP. 2/ pewrsr.ch/2DjjRrH
While individual-level change has not resulted in a significant net shift in the *overall* balance of party identification in the electorate, that is not the case within demographic groups. 3/ pewrsr.ch/2DjjRrH
Many around the world say women’s equality is very important, according to our 2015 global survey. This sentiment was strongest in North America, Europe and Latin America. pewrsr.ch/2J0UdtI#InternationalWomensDay
In an effort to better understand the 2016 electorate, we matched members of our nationally representative American Trends Panel to a national voter file to create a dataset of verified voters. (Thread on findings follows.) pewrsr.ch/2KFmuSe
Among these verified voters, the overall vote preference mirrors the election results very closely: 48% reported voting for Hillary Clinton and 45% for Donald Trump. (Actual election result was 48% Clinton - 46% Trump)
This data source offers a detailed look at the voting preferences of Americans across a range of demographic traits and characteristics.
We’ve just released a new study examining views of President Trump among those who voted for him in the 2016 election. (Thread on findings follows.) pewrsr.ch/2KEAdc6
This analysis is from our American Trends Panel, which allows us to survey the same group of U.S. adults at multiple time points to determine how their views changed over time. (Not possible with a traditional cross-sectional survey.)
We tracked views of Trump at four points, from the primary season in early 2016 through March 2018 (including shortly after the 2016 election, when we also asked survey respondents which candidate they’d voted for).