• White voters keep Mississippi's Hyde-Smith in the Senate

    White voters keep Mississippi's Hyde-Smith in the Senate

    Nov 04, 2020 05:15 AM EST

    ... of white voters, who make up a larger share of the electorate, while 95 percent of Black voters backed Espy, according to the Associated Press’ VoteCast survey preliminary data. Forecasts had favored Hyde-Smith to win. Before the polls closed, FiveThirtyEight suggested her chances of winning were 88 out of ...

  • Voters saw election as a judgment on Trump, AP survey finds

    Voters saw election as a judgment on Trump, AP survey finds

    Nov 03, 2020 11:57 PM EST

    ... designed to be representative of the U.S. population; and self-identified registered voters selected from nonprobability online panels. The margin of sampling error for voters is estimated to be plus or minus 0.4 percentage points. Find more details about AP VoteCast’s methodology at https://ap.org/votecast.

  • Voters say pandemic top issue in election, AP survey finds

    Voters say pandemic top issue in election, AP survey finds

    Nov 03, 2020 10:48 PM EST

    ... designed to be representative of the U.S. population; and self-identified registered voters selected from nonprobability online panels. The margin of sampling error for voters is estimated to be plus or minus 0.4 percentage points. Find more details about AP VoteCast’s methodology at https://ap.org/votecast.

  • How the Associated Press relies on 'facts and math' to call election results

    How the Associated Press relies on 'facts and math' to call election results

    Nov 02, 2020 11:28 PM EST

    ... vote is counted. Also, instead of exit polls, which were limited to in person interviews, as voters left the polls, we will report information from VoteCast. That right there is a series of voter surveys of about 140,000 people leading up to Election Day. So, that includes in person ...

  • Some Latino families see gender gap when it comes to voting

    Some Latino families see gender gap when it comes to voting

    Oct 29, 2020 10:53 PM EST

    ... Hispanic voters in Florida lean more Republican than Hispanic voters nationally, largely driven by Cuban Americans and Venezuelan exiles in the state. In 2018, AP VoteCast showed 44% of Hispanic voters in Florida voted for Republicans, compared with 32% nationwide. Fifty-six percent of Cuban voters in Florida backed Republicans ...

  • Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3 million

    Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3 million

    Oct 29, 2020 03:41 PM EST

    ... Democratic Party raised nearly $59 million over the past two years compared with just $23.7 million for Republicans. Early voting is in full swing in Wisconsin, with more than 1.6 million ballots returned as of Thursday morning. That is nearly 55% of the total vote cast in 2016.

  • How the AP calls races and what to expect on election night

    How the AP calls races and what to expect on election night

    Oct 27, 2020 09:08 PM EST

    ... vote count is reported. If a state has a long history of favoring a particular party or candidate, AP factors in that history with the VoteCast data to determine a winner quickly. AP may decline to call a win or list a race as “too close to call” if a ...

  • In a year of uncertainty, voters' fears of not being counted prompt record early turnout

    In a year of uncertainty, voters' fears of not being counted prompt record early turnout

    Oct 22, 2020 10:18 PM EST

    ... an early polling site in Alpharetta, a suburb of Atlanta. “I’ve actually experienced voter suppression,” Blake said. “This year, I wanted to see my vote cast personally” to make sure it counted. “Given some of the things that have happened in this state, there’s a certain level of ...

  • Despite pandemic, Georgia residents flock to the polls for early voting

    Despite pandemic, Georgia residents flock to the polls for early voting

    Oct 14, 2020 10:40 PM EST

    This year, I wanted to see my vote cast personally. When I pushed the green button, and the light flashed, I knew my vote had been counted. Daniel Bush: So, there you have it, Judy, some challenges that voters are facing, also a lot of anxiety and fear about how ...

  • Trump plays on fears in play for the suburbs

    Trump plays on fears in play for the suburbs

    Jul 25, 2020 06:59 PM EST

    In 2018, one in four suburban voters identified as nonwhite, according to AP VoteCast. That includes Robert Jackson, a 39-year-old Black man and a Democrat who moved four years ago to the suburbs from Philadelphia with his family in search of better schools. He says he saw plenty ...