Americans Say They’re More Fired Up To Vote In This Election Compared To 2016
Gallup has been asking Americans for years about how enthusiastic they are to vote — and this year, Americans are fired up! Sixty-nine percent of registered voters said they are more enthusiastic to vote in this election than in previous years. That’s a departure from 2016, when only about half of Americans said they were more enthusiastic to vote than usual.
According to the Gallup poll, conducted Oct. 16-27, overall enthusiasm levels -- and enthusiasm levels among Democrats in particular -- are about where they were in 2008 when President Obama was elected to his first term. However, in 2008, the share of registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents who said they were more enthusiastic to vote than usual was about 15 percentage points higher than the share of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who said the same. This year, Democrats have a 9-point lead in enthusiasm, according to the poll.
