• No winners yet in close Georgia Senate runoffs as vote count continues

    No winners yet in close Georgia Senate runoffs as vote count continues

    Jan 06, 2021 06:25 AM EDT

    ... About 9 in 10 voters who supported the Republican candidates weren’t confident votes in the general election were counted accurately, according to the AP VoteCast survey. But the strategy risked alienating moderate Republicans and independent voters who disapproved of the way Trump handled the election results. According to VoteCast ...

  • Georgia counting votes in runoffs that decide Senate control

    Georgia counting votes in runoffs that decide Senate control

    Jan 06, 2021 01:31 AM EDT

    ... with Republican voters in Georgia. About 7 in 10 agree with his false assertion that Biden was not the legitimately elected president, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 3,600 voters in the runoff elections. Election officials across the country, including the Republican governors in Arizona and ...

  • More than 1.6 million have already voted in Georgia Senate runoffs, on par with early voting in general election

    More than 1.6 million have already voted in Georgia Senate runoffs, on par with early voting in general election

    Dec 22, 2020 11:28 PM EDT

    That is a large increase from the November election, when 52 percent of voters in Georgia were 50 or older, according to AP’s VoteCast survey. Nationally, President Donald Trump won 51 percent of voters aged 50-64, as well as 51 percent of the over-65 vote. And Trump ...

  • 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 ...