Polls

The Fox News Voter Analysis, conducted in partnership with the Associated Press, provides a comprehensive look at voting behavior, opinions and preferences as America votes. It is based on surveys of the American electorate conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. For the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses, the FNVA results are based on interviews with a random sample of registered voters drawn from state voter files. In select states, these probability sample results are supplemented by interviews with self-identified registered voters recruited from nonprobability online panels. The FNVA methodology captures last-minute voter trends, which are of particular importance in the early caucuses and primaries, as well as the sentiments and behavior of early and absentee voters, who are significant on Super Tuesday and other later primaries.

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How to read these tables:
The percentages to the right of each answer show the proportion of the electorate in that subgroup. When an answer is expanded by clicking on the +, the candidates' support among that subgroup is revealed. The percentages to the right of each listed candidate show how the particular subgroup of voters divided its vote.

South Carolina Democratic Primary

Are you male or female?
Sample: 1,464 Respondents
What is your age?
Sample: 1,464 Respondents
What is your age?
Sample: 1,464 Respondents
Sex, age 2 categories
Sample: 1,461 Respondents
What is your racial or ethnic heritage?
Latino or Hispanic 2%
Asian 0%
Other 3%
Sample: 1,458 Respondents
What is your racial or ethnic heritage?
Sample: 1,458 Respondents
Sex, race 4 categories
Latino men 1%
Latino women 1%
All other 3%
Sample: 1,457 Respondents
Age 2 categories, race 4 categories
Latino 18-44 1%
Latino 45+ 0%
All other races 3%
Sample: 1,456 Respondents
Age 2 categories, race 2 categories
Sample: 1,456 Respondents
Which best describes your level of education?
Sample: 1,461 Respondents
Which best describes your level of education?
Sample: 1,461 Respondents
Age 2 categories, education 2 categories
Sample: 1,458 Respondents
Education 2 categories, race 2 categories
Sample: 1,454 Respondents
How often, if at all, do you attend religious services?
About once a month 6%
Sample: 1,460 Respondents
How often, if at all, do you attend religious services?
Sample: 1,460 Respondents
Generally speaking, do you consider yourself a Democrat, a Republican, or dont you consider yourself either? Would you say you are closer to the Democrats, to the Republicans, or dont you lean toward either?
Republican/Lean Rep 8%
Independent 6%
Sample: 1,467 Respondents
Generally speaking, do you consider yourself to be a liberal, moderate, or conservative?
Sample: 1,440 Respondents
Generally speaking, do you consider yourself to be a liberal, moderate, or conservative?
Sample: 1,447 Respondents
Race 2 categories, ideology 2 categories
Sample: 1,438 Respondents
Which best describes when you decided how you would vote?
Sample: 1,464 Respondents
Which best describes when you decided how you would vote?
Sample: 1,464 Respondents
Which is more important to your vote in the Democratic presidential primary?
Sample: 1,431 Respondents
Which one of the following would you say is the most important issue facing the country?
Immigration 2%
Taxes 4%
Abortion 1%
Gun policy 7%
Foreign policy 4%
Sample: 1,450 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose changing the health care system so that all Americans get their health insurance from a single government plan instead of private health insurance?
Sample: 1,457 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose changing the health care system so that all Americans get their health insurance from a single government plan instead of private health insurance?
Sample: 1,457 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose changing the health care system so that every American can buy into a government-run health care plan if they want to?
Somewhat oppose 7%
Strongly oppose 6%
Sample: 1,458 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose changing the health care system so that every American can buy into a government-run health care plan if they want to?
Sample: 1,458 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose the government canceling student loan debt for most people?
Sample: 1,462 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose the government canceling student loan debt for most people?
Sample: 1,462 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose taxing the use of carbon based fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas?
Sample: 1,450 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose taxing the use of carbon based fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas?
Sample: 1,450 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose legalizing the recreational use of marijuana nationwide?
Sample: 1,453 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose legalizing the recreational use of marijuana nationwide?
Sample: 1,453 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose reducing the criminal justice system's focus on policing and prosecuting low-level offenses?
Strongly oppose 10%
Sample: 1,455 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose reducing the criminal justice system's focus on policing and prosecuting low-level offenses?
Sample: 1,455 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose the government making cash payments to the descendants of enslaved people as reparations for slavery and racial discrimination?
Sample: 1,455 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose the government making cash payments to the descendants of enslaved people as reparations for slavery and racial discrimination?
Sample: 1,455 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose limiting how much money a presidential campaign can spend?
Strongly oppose 8%
Sample: 1,456 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose limiting how much money a presidential campaign can spend?
Sample: 1,456 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose reducing government regulation of business?
Sample: 1,444 Respondents
Do you favor or oppose reducing government regulation of business?
Sample: 1,444 Respondents
Regardless of who you support in the primary, which of the following candidates do you think would be best able to handle: Issues related to race
Mike Bloomberg 2%
Tulsi Gabbard 2%
Amy Klobuchar 3%
Sample: 1,429 Respondents
Regardless of who you support in the primary, which of the following candidates do you think would be best able to handle: Health care
Mike Bloomberg 3%
Tulsi Gabbard 1%
Amy Klobuchar 5%
None of them 5%
Sample: 1,439 Respondents
Which best describes your family's financial situation? Are you...
Sample: 1,457 Respondents
Do you think the country's economic system is fair or unfair to most Americans?
Very fair 6%
Sample: 1,462 Respondents
Do you think the country's economic system is fair or unfair to most Americans?
Sample: 1,462 Respondents
How satisfied or dissatisfied would you be if Joe Biden won the Democratic nomination for president?
Sample: 1,458 Respondents
How satisfied or dissatisfied would you be if Joe Biden won the Democratic nomination for president?
Sample: 1,458 Respondents
How satisfied or dissatisfied would you be if Bernie Sanders won the Democratic nomination for president?
Sample: 1,457 Respondents
How satisfied or dissatisfied would you be if Bernie Sanders won the Democratic nomination for president?
Sample: 1,457 Respondents
How satisfied or dissatisfied would you be if Pete Buttigieg won the Democratic nomination for president?
Sample: 1,447 Respondents
How satisfied or dissatisfied would you be if Pete Buttigieg won the Democratic nomination for president?
Sample: 1,447 Respondents
How satisfied or dissatisfied would you be if Amy Klobuchar won the Democratic nomination for president?
Sample: 1,443 Respondents
How satisfied or dissatisfied would you be if Amy Klobuchar won the Democratic nomination for president?
Sample: 1,443 Respondents
How satisfied or dissatisfied would you be if Tom Steyer won the Democratic nomination for president?
Sample: 1,450 Respondents
How satisfied or dissatisfied would you be if Tom Steyer won the Democratic nomination for president?
Sample: 1,450 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Can beat Donald Trump
Somewhat important 6%
Not too important 2%
Not at all important 6%
Sample: 1,453 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Can beat Donald Trump
Not important 8%
Sample: 1,453 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Has the best policy ideas
Not too important 2%
Not at all important 1%
Sample: 1,456 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Has the best policy ideas
Not important 3%
Sample: 1,456 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Will work across party lines
Not too important 4%
Not at all important 3%
Sample: 1,453 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Will work across party lines
Sample: 1,453 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Cares about people like you
Not too important 4%
Not at all important 1%
Sample: 1,456 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Cares about people like you
Not important 5%
Sample: 1,456 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Is a strong leader
Not too important 1%
Not at all important 2%
Sample: 1,458 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Is a strong leader
Not important 2%
Sample: 1,458 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Has the right experience
Not too important 4%
Not at all important 2%
Sample: 1,454 Respondents
How important is each of the following qualities in the Democratic nominee for president? Has the right experience
Not important 5%
Sample: 1,454 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who is a woman?
A lot easier 4%
Somewhat easier 6%
Sample: 1,452 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who is a woman?
Sample: 1,452 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who is gay or lesbian?
A lot easier 1%
Somewhat easier 2%
Sample: 1,447 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who is gay or lesbian?
Easier 3%
Sample: 1,447 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who has strongly liberal views?
A lot easier 9%
Sample: 1,442 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who has strongly liberal views?
Sample: 1,442 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who is over age 75?
A lot easier 3%
Somewhat easier 3%
Sample: 1,445 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who is over age 75?
Easier 5%
Sample: 1,445 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who is a billionaire?
Sample: 1,443 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who is a billionaire?
Sample: 1,443 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who is Jewish?
A lot easier 2%
Somewhat easier 3%
A lot harder 10%
Sample: 1,445 Respondents
Do you think it would be easier or harder to beat Donald Trump in November, or would it make no difference, if the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who is Jewish?
Easier 5%
Sample: 1,445 Respondents
How important is it to you personally that the United States elects a woman president during your lifetime?
Sample: 1,465 Respondents
How important is it to you personally that the United States elects a woman president during your lifetime?
Sample: 1,465 Respondents
Overall, how confident are you that the Democratic Party's process to select a presidential nominee is fair?
Sample: 1,465 Respondents
Overall, how confident are you that the Democratic Party's process to select a presidential nominee is fair?
Sample: 1,465 Respondents
In the past couple weeks, have you seen a TV ad for a Democratic presidential candidate?
No 5%
Sample: 1,464 Respondents
In the past couple weeks, have you watched a Democratic presidential debate?
Sample: 1,458 Respondents
Combined: SEETVAD and WATCHDEBATE
Did not see a TV ad but did watch debate 2%
Did not see a TV ad and did not watch debate 3%
Sample: 1,455 Respondents
In which of these categories is your total yearly household income, that is, of everyone living in your family household? Was your total household income in 2019...
Sample: 1,441 Respondents
Was your total household income in 2019...
Sample: 1,441 Respondents
Was your total household income in 2019...
Sample: 1,441 Respondents
Which of the following best describes the area where you live?
Sample: 1,465 Respondents
Sex, sizeplace 3 categories
Urban men 5%
Sample: 1,462 Respondents
Race 2 categories, sizeplace 3 categories
Non-white urban 8%
Sample: 1,457 Respondents
AP Party Region
Sample: 1,467 Respondents