We're days away from 2023, but before closing the book on 2022 I want to take a moment to reflect on what we’ve learned this year. Selecting just five charts to highlight a full year’s worth of work is extraordinarily difficult and inherently subjective. The following charts are not necessarily ones that attracted an inordinate amount of attention, were uniquely provocative, or are even all that surprising. In reviewing the 100+ charts and figures we produced in 2022, I was guided more by what these findings say about the country’s future. So, without further ado, here are my favorite findings from 2022.
#1 Abortion Supercharged Young Female Voters in 2022
No group of Americans was more alarmed by the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson than young women. Overwhelmingly, young women support access to abortion, including nearly half who say it should be available without restrictions. By late summer, more than six in ten (61 percent) young women said that abortion was a critical is…
