Why i voted democrat

Brittany Kylene Henry Guest Columnist. Show Caption. Hide Caption. Elections First-time voters share their experience voting.

First-time voters share their experience voting for the first time in a general election. Your state.

Your stories. Support more reporting like this. A subscription gives you unlimited access to stories across Tennessee that make a difference in your life and the lives of those around you. Click here to become a subscriber. Prior to , differences in candidate preferences by education were typically much smaller than they were that year.

At the same time, White voters with a college degree or higher supported Biden by roughly the same margin they had backed Clinton in Ideological divisions within the parties were also apparent in the vote, with both Trump and Biden doing better among the ideological core of their parties.

By contrast, older age groups divided fairly evenly between Biden and Trump, a result not too different from These patterns also are apparent when the lens is shifted to birth cohorts, or generations — groups of voters who share birth years and perhaps formative political experiences in common, such as the popularity of the president at the time they were first eligible to vote.

Voters in the youngest adult generations today — Generation Z those ages 18 to 23 in and the Millennial generation ages 24 to 39 in — favored Biden over Trump by a margin of 20 percentage points, though Trump gained 8 points among Millennials compared with his performance.

Voters in sorted along religious lines in ways consistent with recent elections. Without such broad support for Trump among White evangelicals, Biden would have beaten him by more than 20 points. Without the religiously unaffiliated, Trump would have had a 9-point popular vote margin over Biden. As was the case in the and elections, the Democratic voting coalition in looked quite different from the Republican coalition in several respects.

Overall, Biden voters were younger, more racially and ethnically diverse, and less likely to live in rural areas than Trump voters. Overall, urban voters continue to constitute a larger share of the Democratic coalition compared with the Republican coalition.

And rural voters remain a significantly larger portion of the Republican electorate. The Democratic electorate is more evenly divided when it comes to education. In , the age profiles of Democratic and Republican voters looked largely similar to Younger adults continue to make up a larger share of Democratic voters compared with Republican voters. Protestants made up a majority of those voting Republican in , just as they did in The election brought a huge change in howAmericans cast their ballots.

As some states looked to adapt to challenges in administering elections amid the COVID pandemic , large numbers of voters were offered expanded access to absentee and vote-by-mail options in the election. Government officials are public servants. When our politicians support the policies and people who are the backbone of this country: veterans, health care workers, essential service providers, farmers, teachers, small businesses, too, our most vulnerable citizens, and our newcomers, then our quality of life improves, and our democracy stands stronger.

The Democrats are presently more interested in unifying those aspects of our society. My vote is to make government accountable, responsible, and represent us well here and abroad. To put public service back on the agenda for our future, and the future of next generations. A healthy choice is when both parties put their best candidates forward. This time the Democratic Party is doing better. In 34 years in the trucking business, that was It organizes the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values.

Even in a polarized era, the survey reveals deep divisions in both partisan coalitions. Use this tool to compare the groups on some key topics and their demographics. Pew Research Center now uses as the last birth year for Millennials in our work. President Michael Dimock explains why. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.

Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Newsletters Donate My Account. Research Topics. Wide race, gender differences in partisan leaning There are wide differences in partisan affiliation between white, black and Hispanic registered voters.

Democrats hold wide advantage among college graduates Trends in partisan identification among those with different levels of education have undergone major changes over the last two decades. Party identification across religious groups White evangelical Protestants — long a solidly Republican group — have become even more likely to identify with the Republican Party in recent years.

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