• WATCH: Stacey Abrams concedes Georgia gubernatorial race to Gov. Brian Kemp

    WATCH: Stacey Abrams concedes Georgia gubernatorial race to Gov. Brian Kemp

    Nov 09, 2022 02:00 AM EST

    ... on Abrams, accusing her of not supporting police. A sizable majority of voters identified crime as a factor in their how they cast ballots, AP VoteCast found. More than 8 in 10 voters described it as an important issue. And roughly 8 in 10 Georgians say they're concerned about ...

  • Marco Rubio wins Senate race in Florida

    Marco Rubio wins Senate race in Florida

    Nov 09, 2022 01:23 AM EST

    ... heavily on the minds of Florida voters. Three-quarters of them believe things in the country are heading in the wrong direction, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 3,300 voters in Florida. About half rank jobs as the most important issue facing the country. Almost ...

  • Florida Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost becomes first Gen Z candidate to win House seat

    Florida Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost becomes first Gen Z candidate to win House seat

    Nov 09, 2022 12:57 AM EST

    ... heavily on the minds of Florida voters. Three-quarters of them believe things in the country are heading in the wrong direction, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 3,200 voters in Florida. About half rank the economy and jobs as the most important issues facing ...

  • How the Associated Press calls winners on election night

    How the Associated Press calls winners on election night

    Nov 07, 2022 11:45 PM EST

    ... a lot of your viewers will take advantage of in the hours coming into election night tomorrow and coming out of it, which is really VoteCast. It's our survey of the American electorate. And this allows us to not just tell who won these races, but to tell you ...

  • Vocabulary of voting: A glossary guide to the 2022 midterms

    Vocabulary of voting: A glossary guide to the 2022 midterms

    Nov 05, 2022 05:42 PM EST

    ... This means that any voter can request and cast an absentee or mail ballot without providing a reason. AP VOTECAST First used in 2018, AP VoteCast is a survey of the American electorate conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for Fox News and The Associated Press. VoteCast is ...

  • Senate candidates in Pennsylvania fight for Black vote

    Senate candidates in Pennsylvania fight for Black vote

    Oct 11, 2022 04:57 PM EST

    ... are perhaps the Democratic Party's most loyal supporters. About 9 in 10 Black voters nationally went for Joe Biden in 2020, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 110,000 voters nationwide. In Pennsylvania, the support was similar, at 94%. There's no evidence of a ...

  • Independents once ready to vote for Republicans wavering ahead of midterm elections

    Independents once ready to vote for Republicans wavering ahead of midterm elections

    Sep 19, 2022 06:34 PM EST

    ... nationally preferred Biden over Trump, 52% to 37% in 2020, and preferred Democrats over Republicans in U.S. House races by a similar margin in the 2018 midterms, according to AP VoteCast. Independents who lean neither Democrat nor Republican made up 5% of the 2020 electorate and 12% in 2018.

  • Supreme Court strikes down New York law restricting guns outside the home, with implications for other states

    Supreme Court strikes down New York law restricting guns outside the home, with implications for other states

    Jun 23, 2022 03:01 PM EST

    ... opinion. About half of voters in the 2020 presidential election said gun laws in the U.S. should be made more strict, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of the electorate. An additional third said laws should be kept as they are, while only about 1 in 10 said ...

  • Beijing loyalist John Lee becomes Hong Kong's next leader in uncontested election

    Beijing loyalist John Lee becomes Hong Kong's next leader in uncontested election

    May 08, 2022 02:37 PM EST

    HONG KONG (AP) — John Lee, a hard-line security chief who oversaw a crackdown on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, was elected as the city’s next leader on Sunday in a vote cast by a largely pro-Beijing committee. Lee was the only candidate and won with over ...

  • WATCH: Biden says overturning Roe would be a 'radical,' 'fundamental shift' for the country

    WATCH: Biden says overturning Roe would be a 'radical,' 'fundamental shift' for the country

    May 03, 2022 07:46 PM EST

    ... said her proposal with Collins to legislate abortion rights should be reinvigorated. Polling shows relatively few Americans want to see Roe overturned. In 2020, AP VoteCast found that 69% of voters in the presidential election said the Supreme Court should leave the Roe v. Wade decision as is; just 29 ...