{"id":137657,"date":"2022-10-13T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T21:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/corp\/?p=137657"},"modified":"2025-01-21T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T12:12:00","slug":"similarpoll-midterms2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/insights\/similarpoll-midterms2022\/","title":{"rendered":"SimilarPoll: &#8220;Battleground States&#8221; Lean Democrat in Senate and Gubernatorial Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Similarweb survey finds that voters in \u201cbattleground states\u201d are more likely to favor Democrats over Republicans in 5 of 9 Senate races and 6 of 9 Gubernatorial elections.<\/p>\n<p>The SimilarPoll 2022 Midterm Election Survey provides real-time election polling featuring responses from over 23,000 unique panelists nationwide and reveals that economic concerns are swaying voters: both Democrats and Republicans ranked \u201cInflation and Cost of Living\u201d and \u201cEconomy\u201d as the most important issues in America today while \u2018Abortion\u2019\u00a0 is not as prominent in these voters minds as might have been expected, given the intense politics around that issue.<\/p>\n<p>The poll Similarweb\u2019s proprietary Market Research Panel \u2013 a daily sentiment tracker of mobile phone users in the United States \u2013 to engage directly with users on their mobile devices and qualify attitudes and behaviors. Used commercially to provide businesses with a comprehensive view of consumer activity in the mobile ecosystem, this curated, longitudinal data-gathering proved remarkably accurate in the 2020 US presidential election and has been updated for analysis of key U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races. We also gathered a state-by-state breakdown of the panelists\u2019 most important issues.<\/p>\n<p>Because we are able to poll survey participants on an ongoing basis, using their most recent responses as their views change, SimilarPoll provides a unique perspective that traditional polling cannot easily capture.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a peek at one key chart, which shows the state results where one party is favored by more than the poll&#8217;s margin of error:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-137658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/corp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SimilarPoll.png\" alt=\"SimilarPoll for the 2022 US Midterm Elections\" width=\"816\" height=\"1056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SimilarPoll.png 816w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SimilarPoll-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SimilarPoll-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SimilarPoll-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SimilarPoll-396x512.png 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more details, including state-by-state breakdowns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/corp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SimilarPoll-2022-10-13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download the full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/strong>The Similarweb Insights &amp; Communications team is available to pull additional or updated data on request for the news media (journalists are invited to write to <a href=\"mailto:press@similarweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press@similarweb.com<\/a>). When citing our data, please reference Similarweb as the source and link back to the most relevant blog post or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/insights\/\">similarweb.com\/blog\/insights\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> All data, reports and other materials provided or made available by Similarweb are based on data obtained from third parties, including estimations and extrapolations based on such data. Similarweb shall not be responsible for the accuracy of the materials and shall have no liability for any decision by any third party based in whole or in part on the materials.<\/p>\n<p>Image by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/geralt-9301\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=7036668\">Gerd Altmann<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=7036668\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Similarweb survey finds that voters in \u201cbattleground states\u201d are more likely to favor Democrats over Republicans in 5 of 9 Senate races and 6 of 9 Gubernatorial elections. 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