Initial findings from our 2026 post-election survey: voters want bold change in party and country
We have a first look at how voters saw the 2026 election. Democracy Corps surveyed 3,119 voters who voted in the 2026 general election, from October 29 to November 5, including a national base sample and oversamples of Black, Hispanic, Asian Americans, and Jewish voters and Democratic primary voters.
Democrats want a landslide election, wining the Senate races with 56 percent of the vote and winning the House by 13 points.
Republicans gave voters little more than the border as a reason to vote for them, while Democratic offered help the cost of living and a desire to reverse Trump’s policies that raised prices and on health care.  Voters grade the Democratic Party best on representing working people and weakest on listening to you, not the elites. The want Democrats to focus on policies that help the working class and lessen the power of donors to both parties and focus more on kitchen table than cultural issues. Voters have bold changes in mind, including  taxing billionaires and high tech, acting against monopolies driving up prices, an ethics law covering stock trading, and restoring health care subsidies.
