• Trump takes Florida with support from white and Cuban American voters

    Trump takes Florida with support from white and Cuban American voters

    Nov 04, 2020 07:16 AM EDT

    President Donald Trump won the state of Florida with support from a majority of voters -- 55 percent -- aged 45 and over, according to preliminary data from AP’s VoteCast survey. He also did better with white voters -- at 61 percent -- than former Vice President Joe Biden. While Biden earned a ...

  • North Carolina voters applaud Cooper's coronavirus response, giving him another term

    North Carolina voters applaud Cooper's coronavirus response, giving him another term

    Nov 04, 2020 05:46 AM EDT

    Gov. Roy Cooper’s handling of the coronavirus earned him support among North Carolina voters and helped the Democrat secure re-election. In preliminary data, 62 percent of voters surveyed by AP VoteCast said they approved of the way the governor had handled the pandemic, and among those who approved ...

  • WATCH: Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks as vote count continues

    WATCH: Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks as vote count continues

    Nov 04, 2020 05:31 AM EDT

    ... the coronavirus now surging anew, voters ranked the pandemic and the economy as top concerns in the race between Trump and Biden, according to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate. Voters were especially likely to call the public health crisis the nation’s most important issue, with the ...

  • 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 ...