According to a 2023 survey, Americans between 18 and 29 years of age were more likely to identify with the Democratic Party than any other surveyed age group. While 39 percent identified as Democrats, only 14 percent identified ad Republicans. However, those 50 and older identified more with the Republican Party.

In the last few decades, the Democratic Party has often pulled ahead of the Republican Party in terms of party identification. However, 2022 saw a shift in party identification, with slightly more Americans identifying with the Republican Party for the first time since 2011, when both parties stood at ** percent in 2011. These values include not only those surveyed who identified with a major political party, but also those who identified as independent, but have leanings towards one party over another.

Since 1988, the share of adults in the U.S. who identify as political independents has continued to grow, often surpassing the that of Democrats or Republicans. In 2024, approximately ** percent of adults rejected identification with the major parties, compared to ** percent of respondents identified with the Democratic Party, and ** percent with the Republican Party.

This statistic shows the results of a 2012 survey in the United States regarding the most important problems in the current U.S. economy. The respondents were sorted by political party. In 2012, 27 percent of democrats, 38 percent of republicans and 30 percent of independent voters stated that the economy in general was the most crucial problem for the United States.

THE POLL

As part of Cards Against Humanity Saves America, this poll is funded for one year of monthly public opinion polls. Cards Against Humanity is asking the American people about their social and political views, what they think of the president, and their pee-pee habits.

To conduct their polls in a scientifically rigorous manner, they partnered with Survey Sampling International — a professional research firm — to contact a nationally representative sample of the American public. For the first three polls, they interrupted people’s dinners on both their cell phones and landlines, and a total of about 3,000 adults didn’t hang up immediately. They examined the data for statistically significant correlations which can be found here: [https://thepulseofthenation.com/][1]

Content

• Polls are released each month (they are still polling so this will be updated each month)
  
• Row one is the header and contains the questions
  
• Each row is one respondent's answers
  

Questions in the Sep 2017 poll:

• Income
• Gender
• Age
• Age Range
• Political Affiliation
• Do you approve or disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling his job as president?
• What is your highest level of education?
• What is your race?
• What is your marital status?
• What would you say is the likelihood that your current job will be entirely performed by robots or computers within the next decade?
• Do you believe that climate change is real and caused by people, real but not caused by people, or not real at all?"
• How many Transformers movies have you seen?
• Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: scientists are generally honest and are serving the public good.
• Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: vaccines are safe and protect children from disease.
• "How many books, if any have you read in the past year?"
• Do you believe in ghosts?
• What percentage of the federal budget would you estimate is spent on scientific research?
• "Is federal funding of scientific research too high too low or about right?"
• True or false: the earth is always farther away from the sun in the winter than in the summer.
• "If you had to choose: would you rather be smart and sad or dumb and happy?"
• Do you think it is acceptable or unacceptable to urinate in the shower?

Questions from Oct 2017 poll

• Income
• Gender
• Age
• Age Range
• Political Affiliation
• Do you approve or disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling his job as president?
• What is your highest level of education?
• What is your race?
• From what you have heard or seen do you mostly agree or mostly disagree with the beliefs of White Nationalists?
• If you had to guess what percentage of Republicans would say that they mostly agree with the beliefs of White Nationalists?
• Would you say that you love America?
• If you had to guess, what percentage of Democrats would say that they love America?
• Do you think that government policies should help those who are poor and struggling in America?
• If you had to guess, what percentage of Republicans would say yes to that question?
• Do you think that most white people in America are racist?
• If you had to guess, what percentage of Democrats would say yes to that question?
• Have you lost any friendships or other relationships as a result of the 2016 presidential election?
• Do you think it is likely or unlikely that there will be a Civil War in the United States within the next decade?
• Have you ever gone hunting?
• Have you ever eaten a kale salad?
• If Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ran for president as a candidate for your political party, would you vote for him?
• Who would you prefer as president of the United States, Darth Vader or Donald Trump?

Questions from Nov 2017 poll

• Income
• Gender
• Age
• Age Range
• In politics today, do you consider yourself a Democrat, a Republican or Independent?
• Would you say you are liberal, conservative, or moderate?
• What is your highest level of education? (High school or less, Some college, College degree, Graduate degree)
• What is your race? (white, black, latino, asian, other)
• Do you live in a city, suburb, or small town?
• Do you approve, disapprove, or neither approve nor disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling his job as president?
• Do you think federal funding for welfare programs in America should be increased, decreased, or kept the same?
• Do you think poor black people are more likely to benefit from welfare programs than poor white people?
• Do you think poor people in cities are more likely to benefit from welfare programs than poor people in small towns?
• If you had to choose, would you rather live in a more equal society or a more unequal society?

Acknowledgements

These polls are from Cards Against Humanity Saves America and the raw data can be found here: [https://thepulse...

In the United States, Republican voters perceive Republican presidents to enjoy higher respect among world leaders than Democratic presidents and vice versa. For example, less than ** percent of Republicans believe that Joe Biden is respected by world leaders, whereas nearly ** percent of Democrats believe the same. Independent voters fall somewhere in the middle.

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the country's legislative body. It is made up of 100 Senators, two from each state. Senators serve six-year terms, but elections are staggered. In any given election year, one third of the Senate will be up for reelection. The 119th Congress was sworn-in in January 2025 with a Republican majority.

This study utilizes data from the General Social Survey (GSS), a nationally representative, repeated cross-sectional survey administered by NORC at the University of Chicago. The GSS is one of the most authoritative sources of longitudinal public opinion data in the United States, tracking American attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors across a wide range of social, political, and economic domains since 1972.

For the purposes of this analysis, the dataset was restricted to survey waves from 2000 to 2022, to capture contemporary patterns of polarization around economic redistribution and party identity, particularly during the post-9/11 and post-2016 political realignments. Data were accessed and downloaded through the GSS Data Explorer (https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/), using the platform’s variable filtering and trend tools.

Key variables used in the analysis include:

• Dependent variable: Support for redistribution, measured by agreement with the statement “The government should reduce income differences between the rich and the poor.”

• Independent variables:

  • Party identification (Democrat, Republican, Independent/Other)

  • Racial resentment indicators, including agreement with items such as “Blacks should work their way up without special favors”

  • Year (centered for interaction and trend modeling)

  • Demographic controls: age, gender, income, education, and geographic region

The analytic sample includes respondents with valid responses to all core variables, totaling 5,483 observations after listwise deletion and multiple imputation for missing attitudinal items. All analyses were conducted using R and Python, with appropriate statistical methods for logistic regression, rolling OLS estimation, and interaction modeling. Attempts to estimate a Markov Switching model encountered convergence issues and are excluded from the final analysis.

The GSS sampling design includes multistage area probability sampling and post-stratification weights to ensure representativeness of the U.S. adult population. All interpretations in this study are based on weighted data unless otherwise noted.

How to Replicate the Analysis

To replicate the statistical models presented in this study, follow these steps:

1. Upload the Dataset to Google Colab

   • Open Google Colab

   • Create a new notebook

   • Click the folder icon on the left sidebar

   • Upload the Excel file (MAGADATA.xlsx) containing the cleaned General Social Survey (GSS) data used in this study

2. Load the Analysis Code

   • Open the accompanying Word document (MAGACode.docx)

   • Copy the code blocks written in R and Python from the document

   • Paste the code into the Colab notebook code cells

3. Run the Notebook

   • Click the “▶️” (Run) button at the top left of each code cell

   • Ensure all packages load successfully (Colab will install them if not preloaded)

   • Once the notebook runs, it will execute:

     • Logistic regression on redistribution preferences

     • Interaction models between racial resentment and party ID

     • Rolling OLS trend models by year

     • Summary statistics and plots

According to a survey from late December 2024, the two most important issues among Republican voters in the United States were inflation and immigration, with ** and ** percent ranking it their primary political concerns respectively. In contrast, only *** percent of Democrats considered immigration their most important issue. Inflation and healthcare were the leading issues among democrats in the U.S.

Within Republican friendship networks, nearly half of their social networks are comprised of Protestants, compared with a third in both Democratic and Independent social circles. The highest proportion of religiously unaffiliated individuals (23 percent) were found in Democratic social circles, compared with 11 percent within Republican networks. Catholics make up about a quarter of friendships across party lines.

This study utilizes data from the General Social Survey (GSS), a nationally representative, repeated cross-sectional survey administered by NORC at the University of Chicago. The GSS is one of the most authoritative sources of longitudinal public opinion data in the United States, tracking American attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors across a wide range of social, political, and economic domains since 1972.

For the purposes of this analysis, the dataset was restricted to survey waves from 2000 to 2022, to capture contemporary patterns of polarization around economic redistribution and party identity, particularly during the post-9/11 and post-2016 political realignments. Data were accessed and downloaded through the GSS Data Explorer (https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/), using the platform’s variable filtering and trend tools.

Key variables used in the analysis include:

• Dependent variable: Support for redistribution, measured by agreement with the statement “The government should reduce income differences between the rich and the poor.”

• Independent variables:

  • Party identification (Democrat, Republican, Independent/Other)

  • Racial resentment indicators, including agreement with items such as “Blacks should work their way up without special favors”

  • Year (centered for interaction and trend modeling)

  • Demographic controls: age, gender, income, education, and geographic region

The analytic sample includes respondents with valid responses to all core variables, totaling 5,483 observations after listwise deletion and multiple imputation for missing attitudinal items. All analyses were conducted using R and Python, with appropriate statistical methods for logistic regression, rolling OLS estimation, and interaction modeling. Attempts to estimate a Markov Switching model encountered convergence issues and are excluded from the final analysis.

The GSS sampling design includes multistage area probability sampling and post-stratification weights to ensure representativeness of the U.S. adult population. All interpretations in this study are based on weighted data unless otherwise noted.

In the United States in 2023, ** percent of Republicans reported that they owned at least one gun, and ** percent said that they lived in a household with a gun. In comparison, only ** percent of Democrats owned at least one gun, and ** percent lived in a gun household. Who are gun owners? In 2022, significantly more Democrats were in favor of limiting gun ownership in comparison to Republicans. On the other hand, more Republicans were in favor of protecting the right to own guns in comparison to Democrats. When examined by education level, respondents who said they only had some college, but no degree were the most likely to have said that there is at least one gun in their household. However, nearly a ******* of Americans over 18 years old said that they rarely carry a gun on their person. Republicans vs Democrats Debate The gun control debate in the United States has been a highly contested one. In light of frequent mass shootings, gun control laws have become the center of policy discussions. Democratic politicians tend to put significant emphasis on their gun control policies and are overall more in favor of stricter gun control laws and want more background checks for those who want to purchase a gun. However, Republicans tend to work in favor of gun rights.

A survey held in the U.S. in spring 2023 found that ** percent of Republicans watched Fox News every day or a few times per week, compared to only ** percent of Democrats. More than a third of Democrats and Independents never engaged with Fox News, along with ** percent of Republicans, highlighting the ongoing struggle cable networks face in keeping viewer numbers up.

The 1860 election cemented the Republican Party's position as one of the two major parties in U.S. politics, along with the already-established Democratic Party. Since this time, all U.S. presidents have been affiliated with these two parties, and their candidates have generally performed the best in each presidential election. In spite of this two-party dominance, there have always been third-party or independent candidates running on the ballot, either on a nationwide, regional or state level. No third-party candidate has ever won a U.S. election, although there have been several occasions where they have carried states or split the vote with major party candidates. Today, the largest third-party in U.S. politics is the Libertarian Party, who are considered to be socially liberal, but economically conservative; in the 2016 election, their nominee, Gary Johnson, secured just over three percent of the popular vote, while their latest candidate, Jo Jorgenson, received just over one percent of the vote in the 2020 election.

Theodore Roosevelt The most successful third-party nominee was Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election, who was the only third-party candidate to come second in a U.S. election. The former president had become disillusioned with his successor's growing conservatism, and challenged the incumbent President Taft for the Republican nomination in 1912. Roosevelt proved to be the most popular candidate in the primaries, however Taft had already secured enough Republican delegates in the south to seal the nomination. Roosevelt then used this split in the Republican Party to form his own, Progressive Party, and challenged both major party candidates for the presidency (even taking a bullet in the process). In the end, Roosevelt carried six states, and won over 27 percent of the popular vote, while Taft carried just two states with 23 percent of the vote; this split in the Republican Party allowed the Democratic nominee, Woodrow Wilson, to win 82 percent of the electoral votes despite only winning 42 percent of the popular vote.

Other notable performances The last third-party candidate to win electoral votes was George Wallace* in the 1968 election. The Democratic Party had been the most popular party in the south since before the Civil War, however their increasingly progressive policies in the civil rights era alienated many of their southern voters. Wallace ran on a white supremacist and pro-segregationist platform and won the popular vote in five states. This was a similar story to that of Storm Thurmond, twenty years earlier.

In the 1992 election, Independent candidate Ross Perot received almost one fifth of the popular vote. Although he did not win any electoral votes, Perot split the vote so much that he prevented either Clinton or Bush Sr. from winning a majority in any state except Arkansas (Clinton's home state). Perot ran again in 1996, but with less than half the share of votes he received four years previously; subsequent studies and polls have shown that Perot took an equal number of votes from both of the major party candidates in each election.

The 119th Congress began in January 2025. In this Congress Republicans have majority control of the chamber, holding 53 seats with the two independent Senators from Maine and Vermont joining their legislative caucus.

In 2024, **** percent of posts on X (Twitter) were published by a Republican member of U.S. Congress and **** percent were posted by Democratic members of Congress. Additionally, *** percent of posts were published by Independent members.

According to a poll conducted in December 2018, ** percent of respondents who identified as Democrats supported the introduction of independent redistricting commissions. Republicans also approved of independent redistricting commissions, with ** percent supporting the idea.

Independent redistricting commissions are intended to prevent gerrymandering, which is the process of deliberately changing the boundaries of electoral districts so as to favor one political party over another.

According to exit polls from the 2022 midterm election, ** percent of both Republicans and Democrats voted for members of their own party in races for the House or Representatives. More independent voters voted for Democrats than Republicans.

According to a survey conducted in 2023, ** percent of Americans who identified as Independent and ** percent of Americans who identified as Republican believed that drug and alcohol use was a major cause of homelessness in the United States. In comparison, only ** percent of Democrats shared this belief.

As of 2020, Georgia has taken part in every presidential election contested in the United States, apart from the 1864 election, when Georgia was a member of the Confederacy. In these 58 elections, Georgia has voted for the winning candidate 34 times, giving a success rate of 59 percent. As with most southern states, Georgia has traditionally voted for the more conservative candidate of the major parties; primarily voting Democrat in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, before switching to the Republican Party in the 1960s (although it was considered a swing state in the 1970s and 1980s). Major party candidates have won the popular vote in Georgia in every elections, except in 1968 when George Wallace of the American Independent Party carried the state. Georgia has voted for the Democratic nominee 34 times, including every possible election from 1852 until 1960, and the Republican nominee on ten occasions, including all elections from 1996 to 2016. In the 2020 election, however, Georgia proved to have one of the closest counts nationwide, with Democratic nominee Joe Biden eventually flipping the state by a 0.2 percent margin after several recounts.

Exceptions As previously mentioned, Georgia has predominantly voted Republican since the 1960s, however it did vote for the Democratic nominee in both the 1976 and 1980 elections. In these elections, Georgia native Jimmy Carter carried his home state with over two thirds of the vote in 1976, and defeated Republican favorite Ronald Reagan by 15 percent in 1980. As of 2020, Jimmy Carter is the only Georgia native to have ascended to the presidency, while John C. Frémont, who was the Republican nominee in 1856, is the only other major party nominee to have been born in Georgia. The only other times where Georgia voted Democrat since the 1960s were in 1992, where Bill Clinton defeated the incumbent President George H. W. Bush by just 0.6 percent of the popular vote (this was the closest result of any state in this election) and, as previously mentioned, in 2020 (which, again, was the closest result of any state in this election, along with Arizona). The swing in 2020 has been attributed to increased voter registration and turnout among urban and suburban voters, as a result of Democratic grassroots organizations; as well as the unpopularity of restrictive healthcare policies implemented by the Republican administration within the state.

Electoral votes

Georgia's allocation of electoral votes has generally increased over the past 230 years, with some fluctuation. It has grown from just four votes in the 1800 election, to sixteen votes in 2012; along with Michigan, this is the eighth-highest allocation in the country, contributing to Georgia's position as one of the most influential states in the 2020 election.