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CCCR is an interdisciplinary research center at UW-Madison that aims to understand public opinion & the broad political communication ecology of WI & beyond through social science methods. Engaged scholarship, rooted in democracy. https://cccr.wisc.edu
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Note that Trump's cuts to university research are his least supported policy, @mayasen.bsky.social. Suggests a potentially broad coalition in support of university research, if universities can effectively make this argument.
June 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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And here are some of the methods details for whomever is interested. 👋 /end
About the 2024-25 Wisconsin Communication & Election Study The 2024-25 Wisconsin Communication & Election Study is a multi-wave survey panel administered online by YouGov. Wave 1 was fielded before the presidential election from October 17 to November 4, 2024. Wave 2 – the focus in this report – was fielded in April and May of 2025 with reinterviews of Wave 1 participants plus a supplemental fresh cross-section. Wave 3 will be fielded in Fall 2025. We also fielded a Midwestern regional survey with many of the same questions. In Wave 1, YouGov supplied a demographically weighted representative opt-in sample of 2,000 American residents. For Wave 2, we successfully reinterviewed 52% of Wave 1 national participants. We apply demography-based survey sample weights to better align estimates with state populations. Although non-probability samples do not have traditional margins of error, percentages from the full sample have a virtual margin of error of +/- 2 percentage points for estimates near 50%, with smaller margins for estimates as they move toward 0% or 100%. Estimates for Democrats in the two states have margins of error of +/- 3 percentage points, and estimates for Republicans are +/- 3 percentage points. YouGov interviewed 3486 respondents, including a main sample of 2400 nationally representative respondents (1028 recontacted from Wave 1), and 4 oversamples composed of 253 in Iowa (167 recontacted), 270 in Michigan (178 recontacted), 269 in Minnesota (177 recontacted), and 294 in Wisconsin (225 recontacted). The main sample was then matched down to a sample of 2000, having included all 1028 recontacts. The respondents were matched to a sampling frame on gender, age, race, education, and party ID. The sampling frame is a politically representative "modeled frame" of US adults.
June 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Read more details in the full report here!

We'll be doing much more analysis with these data, and we'll have another panel survey wave in November.

Stay tuned! 12/
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June 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Trust also varied among Reps by media use. Police & Trump trust is higher among RW-only Reps. Trust in colleges, college grads, unions, & big corps is higher for MSM Reps. Institutional trust is highest for RW+MSM. Distrust of undocumented across all media groups. 11/
Chart: Rep trust in institutions by media use See text for description.
June 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Media use differentiated economic & personal finance perceptions among Reps, w/ RW only Reps engaged in greater partisan perceptual biases than other Reps. 10/
Nat'l econ views for Reps by media use. See text for description. Chart: Rep reports on personal finances by media use. See text for description.
June 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Finally, we looked at all these views among Reps, whose views varied dramatically by media use -- regular RW media use only (18%) vs mainstream only (23%) vs. both (20%) vs. minimal (39%).

RW media Reps were *more* aware of major Trump actions & more supportive than MSM & min. 9/
Rep awareness of Trump actions (chart) Range from 73% to 91%, gaps by media use up to 40 pts. Chart: Rep support for Trump's actions Big gaps by media use up to 40 pts
June 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Public trust in institutions & groups was low overall, but with high variance by party depending on the target, incl for universities & colleges. Highest overall for military, lowest for Congress & big corporations, even among Reps.

Average trust levels were largely unchanged since Oct 2024. 8/
Chart: trust in institutions & groups Lowest for big corps & Congress, highest for military Big party gaps on many but widespread distrust of big corps & Congress. Chart: change in institutional trust, ranging from -3 to +6
June 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM