Canadians follow American politics with a deep and abiding interest. As Pierre Trudeau once said to the Washington Press Club, “Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” Canadians are keen to understand what is going on in the current US election and what it might mean for them.
INNOVATIVE is helping to answer that questions by conducting a pair of online surveys in the United States and Canada to understand the political landscape in both countries and the values voters hold. The objective of the study is to answer three key questions.
- What is happening in the 2020 US Presidential election and why?
- What the similarities and differences between Canada and the US?
- How have these differences have changed since Trump’s election in 2016.
From October We asked 1,500 eligible voters in Canada and 1,000 registered voters in the United States questions about their attitudes towards their governments, their vote intentions, and their values on a range of dimensions. In the US, we also included an oversample of 1,200 registered voters in 6 tipping point states.
This study is a follow-up to a similar study we conducted in 2016, allowing us to understand not only the current landscape in each country, but how things have been changing over time. While the 2020 study has been updated with new questions, the results of the 2016 study are shown for comparison wherever available.
Dig into the posts below for detailed insights, or read our full report here.
