Posts Tagged ‘What Happened in 2020’
Trump’s improvement with non-White voters in 2020 was important — but not as important as the turnout surge
Philip Bump | May 10, 2021 Since polls closed Nov. 3, there’s been a lot of focus on the extent to which Black and Hispanic voters seem to have been more open to President Donald Trump than they were in 2016. Preliminary exit polls showed Trump doing better with non-White voters than he had four…
Read MoreThe Three Big Drivers in 2020
Taegan Goddard | May 10, 2021 Electoral data analysis firm Catalist released a major study of the demographic trends that shaped 2020 election: Biden “made significant gains among white voters compared to 2016, particularly among white college and white suburban voters.” Biden actually performed better with non-college White voters than Hillary 2016 and Obama 2012, but Trump…
Read MoreYoung, diverse voters fueled Biden victory over Trump
Reid Wilson | May 10, 2021 A diverse coalition of young and new voters propelled President Biden to victory in November, according to a major new study of the 2020 electorate, while former President Trump made inroads among Hispanic voters in key states. The report, from the Democratic data analytics firm Catalist, found the most diverse electorate in American history…
Read MoreNew Voters Helped Propel Biden in 2020
Amy Walter | May 10, 2021 We know that 2020 produced the largest voter turnout in modern history. But, for a detailed understanding of who voted—and how they voted—we had to wait until state voter files were updated and analyzed. This week, Catalist, a Democratic data analytics firm, released their first deep dive into the 2020 election…
Read MoreYounger voters propelled Biden to victory over Trump in 2020, new study finds
Alex Roarty | May 10, 2021 A sharp increase in the number of voters from the youngest two generations helped President Joe Biden win the 2020 election, according to a new study from a Democratic analytics firm, boosting him over former President Donald Trump despite the incumbent’s high levels of support among seniors. The report, published…
Read MoreMassive turnout, voters of color — new data fill in the details on Biden’s election win
David Lauter | May 10, 2021 High turnout among voters of color, increased support among white voters with college degrees, and a stop — or a least a pause — in declining support for Democrats among white voters without degrees: President Biden needed all of that for his victory in November and he, or some…
Read MoreOpinion: The biggest 2020 election surprise you probably never heard of
Jennifer Rubin | May 10, 2021 Polling and data analysts are finally obtaining actual voter files from the 2020 election, freeing them from their reliance on questionable exit polling. Some of the findings confirm what we already knew: the decline of non-college-educated Whites as a percentage of the electorate [Catalist analysis] (from 51 percent in 2008 to…
Read MoreA new report complicates simplistic narratives about race and the 2020 election
The report from the firm Catalist looks at what changed since 2016, but also at the parties’ coalitions overall. Andrew Prokop | May 10, 2021 In the days and weeks after presidential election results come in, commentators attempting to figure out what happened with voter demographics are often in a fog — forced to rely on unreliable…
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