{"id":1971539,"date":"2023-07-13T01:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T05:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voter-turnout-drove-gop-gains-in-2022-midterms-pew-report\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T01:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T05:28:00","slug":"voter-turnout-drove-gop-gains-in-2022-midterms-pew-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voter-turnout-drove-gop-gains-in-2022-midterms-pew-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew Report: High Voter Turnout Boosted GOP in 2022 Midterms."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvoter-turnout-drove-gop-gains-in-2022-midterms-pew-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1971539&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0713\/318b1689-ef32-46f8-9c23-14b5c71d712c\/audio.mp3?length=2422413&#038;duration=202\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Republican gains in the 2022 midterms were largely owed to an advantage the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-republicans-historic-performance-by-the-numbers\/\" title=\"Florida Republicans\u2019 Historic Performance, By the Numbers\">party achieved<\/a> in voter turnout, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2023\/07\/12\/republican-gains-in-2022-midterms-driven-mostly-by-turnout-advantage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> on July 12, found that<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cpartisan differences in turnout\u2014rather than vote switching between parties\u2014account for most of the Republican gains in voting for the House last year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pew also found that \u201c68 percent of those who voted in the 2020 presidential election turned out to vote in the 2022 midterms,\u201d and that \u201cFormer President Donald Trump\u2019s voters turned out at a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">higher rate in 2022 (71 percent) than did President Joe Biden\u2019s voters (67 percent).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The poll showed that very few voters across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voter-turnout-drove-gop-gains-in-2022-midterms-pew-report\/\" title=\"Pew Report: High Voter Turnout Boosted GOP in 2022 Midterms.\">elections analyzed switched party support<\/a>; although \u201cDemocratic <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2018 voters were slightly more likely than Republican 2018 voters to defect in 2022, with the net consequences of the party balance flipping 1 or 2 percentage points to the GOP.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the \u201cred wave\u201d failed to materialize for the GOP last year, the party was still able to win control of the House and win the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justin-trudeau-falling-behind-in-canadian-election-polls\/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau falling behind in Canadian election polls\">nationwide popular vote<\/a> in House races.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5260369\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/12\/id5260369-GettyImages-1404219726-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t\tA voter casts her ballot with her child at a polling station at Rose Hill Elementary School during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-gop-divided-over-choice-of-gubernatorial-nominee-ahead-of-tuesdays-primary\/\" title=\"Massachusetts GOP Divided Over Choice of Gubernatorial Nominee Ahead of Tuesday\u2019s Primary\">midterm primary election<\/a> in Alexandria, Va., on June 21, 2022. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h2>Voter Demographics<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More voters, in both parties, voted in person on election day 2022 than they did in 2020, according to Pew. Yet, here, Republicans held a big advantage over Democrats, 51 percent to 34 percent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another statistic contained in the Pew poll is that voters who were 50 or older constituted, in 2022, a larger segment (64 percent) of the total number of voters than in the three elections prior.\u00a0 What may be another positive portent for the GOP is that among those 50-plus voters, 70 percent were Republican and 57 percent Democratic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhite voters without college degrees made up a majority (54 percent) of Republican voters in 2022, compared with 27% of Democratic voters,\u201d Pew found. \u201cYet these voters made up a somewhat greater share of GOP voters in 2020 (58 percent) and 2018 (57 percent).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>White evangelical Protestants continue to be a large and solid segment of support for Republicans, with the advantage actually bigger in 2022 than in the previous three elections. Pew reported: \u201c86 percent supported Republican candidates in 2022 and 12 percent voted Democratic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A heartening trend for the GOP, one documented in the Pew poll, is that even though most Hispanics still vote Democratic, Republicans are cutting into the advantage Democrats hold with this key demographic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHispanic voters favored Demo<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1640,"featured_media":1971540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}