The 2022 election influencers

To really understand an election, you have to understand the motivations — and the lives — of the Americans voting in it. But too often our politics misses the point, and just describes people as demographic groups or party labels. We can do better. 

We've got the data for it: tens of thousands of interviews in our CBS News polling over the year where people have expressed themselves and how they see politics.

Here's what we learned from it all: the groups who are the influencers of 2022, whose ideas and choices are steering the conversation now and likely deciding the midterms next month.