{"id":47449,"date":"2020-06-30T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2020\/06\/30\/appendix-2-3\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:10:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:10:28","slug":"appendix-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2020\/06\/30\/appendix-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Appendix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;categorization-of-battleground-states-in-this-report&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"categorization-of-battleground-states-in-this-report\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Categorization of battleground states in this report<\/h3>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/?attachment_id=20075355\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20075355\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20075355\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/PP_06.30.20_public.mood_.trump_.methodology-00-4.png\" alt=\"Categorization of battleground states\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To identify battleground states for the November presidential election, researchers consulted several experts\u2019 forecasts (including <a href=\"http:\/\/crystalball.centerforpolitics.org\/crystalball\/2020-president\/\">Larry Sabato\u2019s Crystal Ball<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/national\">Cook Political Report<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/insideelections.com\/ratings\/president\">Inside Elections<\/a> and Nate Cohn\u2019s New York Times ratings) to come up with a categorization of each state as either likely to back the Democrat (Blue\/lean blue), likely to back the Republican (Red\/lean Red), or a \u201cbattleground state.\u201d The specific states in each category can be found in the accompanying table.<\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;categorization-of-covid-19-county-health-impact-in-this-report&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"categorization-of-covid-19-county-health-impact-in-this-report\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Categorization of COVID-19 county health impact in this report<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This report uses the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in each respondent\u2019s county as a measure of the scale of the health impact of the outbreak for each individual in the survey. These numbers are then adjusted for differences in county population (per 100,000 residents). Counties are categorized as having a high, medium or low rate of COVID-19 deaths.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/?attachment_id=20075356\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20075356\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20075356\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/PP_06.30.20_public.mood_.trump_.methodology-00-5.png\" alt=\"Categorization of COVID-19 death rate by county \" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Counties are classified as \u201chigh\u201d if they had 28 or more deaths per 100,000 people as of June 17, 2020. \u201cLow\u201d counties had fewer than seven deaths per 100,000 people. 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