AKA Scott Keeter. Senior survey advisor to Pew Research Center. Lapsed political scientist. Bad golfer. Hiker. Same colleges as Steph Curry & Michael Jordan.
Joined January 2009
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Jun 10
Do you feel like you don’t fit in as a ‘Democrat’ or a ‘Republican?’
Our new political typology shows this complexity, sorting the public into nine distinct groups based on their political and cultural values.
The result is a picture of American politics with far more than just red and blue.
ALT Chart of The 2026 Pew Research Center Political Typology.
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The AAPOR Task Force on 2024 Pre-Election Polling released its final report today aapor.org/wp-content/uploads…
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Today's release of the 2025 NPORS survey and data wasn't the only thing we were up to. Here's a piece on why we decided to add past vote to our survey weighting and how it's done pewresearch.org/decoded/2025…
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Calling all data nerds! Pew Research Center has just released its 2025 edition of NPORS, with estimates of U.S. party affiliation, religious affiliation and frequency of internet use. See the fact sheet and links to the dataset at pewresearch.org/methods/fact…
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And here are party affiliation trends from six years of NPORS data pewresearch.org/politics/fac…
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We took a broad look at social trust in America today. With a survey of almost 37,000 people we were able to look at levels of trust across the states and even in metro areas. Check out our new report here pewresearch.org/SocialTrust
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My colleague @katschaeffer and I contribute a chapter about covering election polls for this new edition of The IRE Journal. Check it out!
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The latest edition of The IRE Journal dives deep into elections: ire.org/product/ire-journal-…
Our writers offer guidance on navigating disinformation danger from artificial intelligence, investigating campaign finances and gerrymandering, finding alternatives to traditional horse-race reporting, and more.
ALT The IRE Journal, cover of Third Quarter 2024 edition. AI-generated art shows a robot-figure typing/looking at computer screens with social media icons. Text: The elections issue How to fight Al-driven disinformation STORY BY PEN AMERICA • PG. 22 Other stories featured on cover: Campaign finance exposed / Essential tips from OpenSecrets, Global election investigations / GIJN highlights at IRE24, Reporting on survey data / Pew Research for journalists
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We put together a little grab-bag of things to know about election polling in the US, for example that polling methods are quite different today than in 2016, that the margin of sampling error captures just one of several kinds of error, and much more pewrsr.ch/3iay5d5
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pollcat retweeted
11 Jul 2024
In our new survey, only 24% of voters say the phrase “mentally sharp” describes Biden; 58% say the same of Trump.
Meanwhile, about twice as many voters describe Trump as mean-spirited (64%) than say that about Biden (31%). pewrsr.ch/4bzF6zH
ALT Chart shows Only about a quarter of voters say Biden is ‘mentally sharp’; nearly two-thirds describe Trump as ‘mean-spirited’
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pollcat retweeted
11 Jul 2024
NEW A pair of candidates with some notable personal weaknesses:
Just 24% of voters - including 53% of his supporters- say Biden is "mentally sharp."
Just 36% describe Trump as honest.
64% - including 39% of his supporters - say Trump is "mean-spirited."
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Now available from Pew Research Center: the annual National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS), which interviewed 5,626 U.S. adults identified via address-based sampling with a 32% response rate. View key estimates and download the data: pewrsr.ch/3ukleLR
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Here's a new version of our short course “Public Opinion Polling Basics.” In six short lessons, I discuss why we have polls, how they work, challenges facing polls, what to look for in a poll, and more. A new lesson focuses on election polling pewresearch.org/course/publi…
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And of course, there is a quiz pewresearch.org/methods/quiz…
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pollcat retweeted
9 Apr 2024
NEW Among the many differences in the composition of the Rep and Dem parties, religious affiliation is among the most striking. GOP continues to be overwhelmingly made up of Christians. Dem Party is now 46% non-Christian, up from 25% in 2008.
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2 Apr 2024
Younger Americans have a more favorable opinion of the Palestinian people than the Israeli people. Six-in-ten adults under age 30 have a positive view of the Palestinian people, compared with 46% who see the Israeli people positively. pewrsr.ch/3J42NnQ
ALT A dot plot showing that Americans’ views of Israelis, Palestinians differ by age.
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Today we released a second set of results and analyses from our survey of US public opinion about the Israel-Hamas war -- focused on questions of free speech and discrimination, among other topics. Survey included oversamples of Muslim and Jewish adults pewrsr.ch/3vBc4Rb
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And this analysis focuses on Jewish Americans perspectives pewrsr.ch/4cUfUWz
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The views of young adults about the Israel-Hamas war differ from those of older Americans pewrsr.ch/3xkTpcP
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