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The ANES collects high-quality, non-partisan survey data on voting and public opinion. The gold standard of survey research for 75 years and a proud winner of the AAPOR policy award. Posting about new data, analyses by the public and more.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
So much talk of #politicalviolence in the headlines these days, but what do the ANES 2024 Time Series data say?
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
From the ANES 2020: Should federal spending on #SocialSecurity be increased, decreased, or kept the same? Weighted totals: 55.8% increased, 4.4% decreased, and 39.9% kept the same. See the ANES Question Search: electionstudies.org/data-tools/a...
August 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The full release of the ANES 2024 Time Series #Data is now available. More details here: electionstudies.org/anes-announc...
August 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
From ANES 2020: Should the federal #MinimumWage be raised, kept the same, lowered but not eliminated, or eliminated altogether? Weighted totals for the responses: 59.8% raised, 31.8 kept the same, 2.7 lowered and 5.7 eliminated. To check out other questions, visit electionstudies.org/data-tools/a...
July 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The final mtg of the 2024 ANES Advisory Board is in the books. The PIs are deeply grateful for their hard work this grant cycle. Thanks also to the fantastic ANES staff at Michigan, Stanford, Texas, and Duke. It was a productive mtg reviewing lessons learned and talking about the project's future.
June 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
May 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The preliminary release of the 2024 Time Series Pre-Election data is now available for download: electionstudies.org/data-center/...
February 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Our #ANES75th year is almost over. Read more reflections on 75 years of the ANES:

electionstudies.org/about-us/ref...
December 17, 2024 at 7:59 PM
"Scholarship using the ANES has shed unparalleled insight on central determinants of public opinion and political behavior: interests, principles, partisanship, and group attitudes. [It] is one of the most important public goods in political science."
Spencer Piston, Boston University
#ANES75th
November 21, 2024 at 6:14 PM
"The large ANES questionnaire gives scientists an extensive list of topics to explore and to understand the American electorate."
@francy-lunadiaz.bsky.social, University of Michigan
#ANES75th
November 14, 2024 at 7:13 PM
"The ANES is a uniquely valuable source of data for illuminating the mechanisms undergirding social and political forces in America..."
@drakulich.bsky.social, Northeastern University
November 12, 2024 at 6:10 PM
"One of the most useful aspects of the ANES is that it allows us to track racial attitudes and their relationship with political outcomes over time."
@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social, Stanford University
November 7, 2024 at 6:00 PM
"Democracy is based on the attitudes of the public, and the ANES has led to greater understanding of the complexity of those attitudes."
Herbert Weisberg, Ohio State University
November 5, 2024 at 7:40 PM
"The American National Election Studies has for decades provided valuable resources for understanding U.S. public opinion and has continually improved and adapted to changing times and circumstances." L.J Zigerell, Illinois State
#ANES75th
October 31, 2024 at 3:56 PM
The time series is an invaluable resource to the social science community in understanding trends in partisanship, vote choice, and attitudes from everything about gender to foreign policy.
@sgadarian.bsky.social, Syracuse University
#ANES75th
October 29, 2024 at 5:26 PM
"The ANES is one of the most powerful tools social scientists have for understanding political attitudes and behavior in the United States." @jardina.bsky.social, University of Virginia. #ANES75th
October 22, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Was it even your 75th birthday if there wasn’t cake? #APSA2024 #ANES75th
September 7, 2024 at 11:01 PM
More from #APSA2024! John Aldrich details the contributions of many groups critical to the success and scientific advances of the ANES - PIs, NSF, Board, staff, and user community. #ANES75th
September 6, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Merrill Shanks on the changing role of policy-related attitudes over time as evidenced in the ANES 1952-2000 time series studies #APSA2024 #ANES75th
September 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
The #ANES75th celebration continues at #APSA24. ANES sessions are listed here:
electionstudies.org/about-us/75-...

The reception ( WITH CAKE ) is Sep 6, 7:30-9pm Philly Convention Center, 109B. Thanks to our sponsors: EPVOB, Political Psychology and UM Center for Political Studies.
August 29, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Interviewing has begun for the 2024 American National Election Study. It will be the 19th ANES survey of the American presidential electorate.
electionstudies.org/data-center/...
August 16, 2024 at 2:14 PM
We're celebrating the #ANES75th with an #APSA2024 panel that brings together scholarship using
ANES data in innovative ways.
Psst...we'll have ANES swag!
August 8, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Shanto Iyengar of Stanford says, "The unparalleled ANES time series data have made possible the discovery of an entirely new subfield of American politics - the phenomenon of affective polarization or animus across the party divide. #ANES75th #AffectivePolarization #polisky
May 28, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Lena Centeno of Westat reviews the use of live video interviewing in the ANES 2020 Time Series Study and Westat's building on that experience when implementing video as a mode in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. #ANES75th #AAPOR24
May 16, 2024 at 5:10 PM