Most sheriffs are elected, and hundreds are on the ballot this November. In an exclusive survey, The Marshall Project found that sheriffs are far more conservative than Americans as a whole, and largely approve of Trump's performance as president.
Methodology
Holman and Farris emailed these sheriffs in November 2021, with four follow-up email reminders over three weeks, and used internet searches to identify alternative contact information in cases where emails bounced back as undeliverable. 832 sheriffs offices opened the link to the survey, 576 answered at least one question on the survey and 439 saw every question in the survey, according to the platform used to conduct the research.
Following institutional review board approval at Texas Christian University and Tulane University, sheriffs were promised anonymity but given the option of agreeing to a follow-up interview, and in those cases the sheriffs allowed their responses to the survey to be on-the-record. To compare the political views of responding sheriffs and the counties they serve to the U.S. as a whole, Farris and Holman used data from the
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