• Women crucial to Biden's win, even as gender gap held steady

    Women crucial to Biden's win, even as gender gap held steady

    Nov 16, 2020 04:56 PM EST

    Smeal adds that the gender gap, while perhaps smaller than she’d hoped, was still crucial in the presidential race. “It helped Biden and Harris carry the suburbs,” she says, noting in particular the suburbs of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the crucial state of Pennsylvania, which Biden won. VoteCast showed ...

  • Pope Francis congratulates Biden for winning presidential election

    Pope Francis congratulates Biden for winning presidential election

    Nov 13, 2020 03:07 PM EST

    ... golf club on the day Biden was declared the winner while Trump golfed.In the election, 50% of Catholic voters backed Trump and 49% favored Biden, according to VoteCast, a survey of more than 110,000 voters nationwide conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago.

  • Pope congratulates Joe Biden on election

    Pope congratulates Joe Biden on election

    Nov 12, 2020 11:44 PM EST

    ... among the vocal supporters of Trump as he refuses acknowledge Biden's victory. In the election, 50% of Catholic voters backed Trump and 49% favored Biden, according to VoteCast, a survey of more than 110,000 voters nationwide conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago.

  • 3 voter trends that helped Biden

    3 voter trends that helped Biden

    Nov 10, 2020 12:49 AM EST

    ... more unified country and for people to start “listening to each other.” The vast majority of Americans want to restore civility, according to the AP VoteCast data, with 96 percent of voters saying it was important to them that the next president bring the country together. Biden has said he ...

  • Ben Carson tests positive for COVID-19

    Ben Carson tests positive for COVID-19

    Nov 09, 2020 06:02 PM EST

    ... Republicans now believe that Trump might have won reelection had he handled things differently. Still, Trump's approach reflected the priorities of his supporters. AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate, found that about half of Trump voters called the economy and jobs the top issue facing the nation ...

  • Black leaders greet Biden win, pledge to push for equality

    Black leaders greet Biden win, pledge to push for equality

    Nov 08, 2020 12:43 AM EST

    ... powered Biden's successful campaign, particularly in critical states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. Nine in 10 Black voters nationwide supported him, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 110,000 voters across the country. “Vice President Biden understands that we are fully formed American citizens who ...

  • Suburban and urban voters secure Biden win in Pennsylvania

    Suburban and urban voters secure Biden win in Pennsylvania

    Nov 07, 2020 04:56 PM EST

    ... across the United States supported Trump, significantly more than the 46 percent who voted for Clinton. This year he captured 44 percent nationally, according to VoteCast data. In Pennsylvania in 2016, Trump carried 52 percent of suburbanites; VoteCast data shows that number at 45 percent in 2020. For months leading ...

  • Trump wins white evangelicals but Catholics are split, AP survey finds

    Trump wins white evangelicals but Catholics are split, AP survey finds

    Nov 06, 2020 05:06 PM EST

    ... VoteCast. In 2016, Trump won 64% of white Catholics and Clinton won 31%, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of voters. Among Hispanic Catholics, VoteCast shows 67% backed Biden and 32% backed Trump. “The election results show that the Catholic Church is as divided as our nation, but the ...

  • WATCH: McConnell holds news conference with key Senate races still undecided

    WATCH: McConnell holds news conference with key Senate races still undecided

    Nov 06, 2020 02:58 PM EST

    According to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate, voters ranked the pandemic and the economy as top concerns. “It’s time for a different approach,” said Democrat John Hickenlooper, a former governor who unseated Republican Sen. Cory Gardner in Colorado. Yet voters, for the most part, stuck with ...

  • Counties with worst virus surges overwhelmingly voted Trump

    Counties with worst virus surges overwhelmingly voted Trump

    Nov 05, 2020 10:29 PM EST

    ... effective and gains government approval, she said. “The vaccine provides the reset button,” Sgaier said. Dr. Anthony Fauci may be another unifying force. According to VoteCast, 73% of voters nationwide approve of the way Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been handling the ...