The partisan disparity in these views is wide: Nearly three times as many Republican voters think of their vote as being against Biden as say the president is not much of a factor in their vote (71% vs. That is the case today: 36% say their midterm vote is against Biden, while 24% think of it as a vote for Biden 38% say Biden is not much of a factor in their voting decision. House of Representatives that year.Īs in previous midterms, voters are more likely to view their vote as an expression of opposition than support for the president. Democrats went on to gain the majority in the U.S. Another 10% say they are not sure who they would support, while 4% would vote for other candidates.Įarly in the 2018 midterm cycle, Democratic candidates had a double-digit edge over Republicans on the generic congressional ballot. The new survey finds that equal shares of registered voters say, if the elections were held today, they would support the Republican candidate or the Democratic candidate (43% each) in their district. Four years ago, there were only slight partisan differences on this measure (67% of Democrats and 65% of Republicans said it really mattered which party controlled Congress following the elections) and that remained the case throughout the 2018 campaign. Today, in contrast with 2018, Republican registered voters (70%) are more likely than Democratic voters (60%) to say which party wins control of Congress this year really matters. adults, including 9,021 registered voters, conducted March 7-13, 2022, finds that most voters (63%) say which party wins control of Congress in this year’s elections “really matters,” similar to the share who said this in early 2018 (65%). The new Pew Research Center survey of 10,441 U.S. At the same time, Republican voters are more likely than Democratic voters to say it “really matters” which party gains control of Congress in this fall’s midterms.Īt this early stage of the campaign, President Joe Biden is much more of a motivating factor for Republican than Democratic voters: 71% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters say they think of their vote as being “against” Biden far fewer Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters (46%) view their vote as a vote “for” the president. With the midterm congressional elections still more than seven months away, registered voters are evenly divided between the two major parties in their election preferences.
Here are the questions used for the report, along with responses, and its methodology. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S.
Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. For this analysis, we surveyed 10,441 U.S. Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how the public views control of Congress, issues for the upcoming midterm elections and confidence in how the elections will be conducted.
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