With over 30 million monthly users, Whisper is one of the largest anonymous forms of social media. That's why it's a great place to talk about politics — you can share your thoughts about the 2016 election without fear of offending anyone IRL. The election has quickly become one of Whisper's most popular discussion topics, so the platform polled 200,000 of its users to see where their priorities stack up. Almost half (46.6%) of Whisper users in the study considered themselves Independents, while 33.7% said they were Democrats and 19.7% identified as Republicans. This may seem odd, but it's actually a pretty good slice of what's going on across the country. Nationwide, 42% of voters identify as Independents, according to a Gallup poll, although most Independents lean liberal or conservative. Twenty-nine percent of voters across the country call themselves Democrats while 26% support the GOP. When you compare the national stats to Whisper's numbers, you can see that Whisper's user base generally leans liberal, with the minority in the GOP.

It's not surprising that the top state talking about Trump and Sanders was Washington, D.C. (which technically isn't a state), because D.C. is the political center of America. According to the study's data, equal rights was the most important issue for Whisper users (40.7%), followed by the economy (31.2%), national security (14.5%), and healthcare (13.5%). These results differ from recent findings by Gallup, which found the four most pressing policy issues in the 2016 campaign are terrorism and national security, the economy, employment, and healthcare. In the long term, Whisper users are most concerned about global warming (53.6%), followed by gun control (24.8%) and immigration (21.4%). The poll was taken before the Orlando shooting, and since then, gun control has become a higher priority for many Whisper users. Still, while climate change is a huge partisan issue, it's not as much of a priority for those polled by Gallup, where only 21% of Republicans and 69% of Democrats considered it "extremely important" — well below the average of other issues. The issue's popularity on Whisper could be explained by the platform's liberal-leaning, and younger user base.

Oh, and Trump is the most-talked-about candidate on the platform. People may not like his rhetoric, or policies, but it's no secret that he's made a splash in the system.

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