Critical Analysis

1. In the 2020 election campaign, identify the portion of American eligible voters received contact from a political campaign?

2. Identify which racial group was least likely to receive contact from a campaign?

3. Describe one trend in the 2020 presidential campaign regarding race and campaign contact?

4. Why do you think that is?

5. What is one consequence of this trend?

6. Americans voted in record numbers in last year’s presidential election, casting nearly 158.4 million ballots. That works out to more than six-in-ten people of voting age and nearly two-thirds of estimated eligible voters. Explain whether the high level of voter contact impacted the high level of voter turnout.

7. In the 2020 election campaign, what was the most common form of campaign contact?

8. In the 2020 election, which of the above forms of contact did you or your family receive?

9. Which of the above forms of contact do you think has the biggest impact?

10. Overall, how much do you think the campaign contacts forms listed above impact voting?

11. How much do age and education impact the likelihood of campaign contact?*

12. Before election day, what was the most common political activity during the 2020 campaign?*

Learning Extension

Check out all the campaign contact charts, graphs, and data from Pew Pew Pew Research Center.

Action Extension

List the ways you were contacted and participated in the 2020 election campaign and share your list online or in class.

Visual Extension*