Dan Keating

Washington, D.C.

Data analysis, visualizations

Education: Williams College bachelor's degree in psychology

Keating reported at The Berkshire Eagle for four years including three years as a police and court reporter. He worked for 11 years at The Miami Herald, including four years in the Key West Bureau. He then specialized in data analysis. Keating was part of a team that won a Pulitzer at The Miami Herald for exposing vote fraud, and a team that was a Pulitzer finalist the year before for uncovering police fraud. Keating has taught data and analysis as an adjunct in the graduate program at Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2012 through 2018.
Latest from Dan Keating

A Connecticut town that swung toward Trump offers clues for Democrats

Even in the Naugatuck Valley, a Democratic area in a blue state, economic frustrations pushed some voters toward the Republican nominee

December 2, 2024
Waterbury's East Main Street. It's a working-class manufacturing city that mirrors other communities across the country that, while reliably Democratic, moved closer to supporting the Republican presidential candidate in 2024.

The counties that picked the winning president every year since 2000

Of the nine counties that had voted for every president since 2000, which ones accurately picked Trump in 2024?

November 12, 2024
President-elect Obama and President Bush stand together on the West Wing Colonnade of the White House in Washington, Nov. 10, 2008. The party flip in 2008 to Obama, a Democrat, dramatically reduced the number of counties that had always picked the winner. Only 272 counties voted twice for Bush and then for Obama. (Charles Dharapak/AP)

2024 turnout is near the 2020 record. See how each state compares.

Votes are still being counted in some states, but those tabulated so far and expected totals show a range of turnout across states.

November 12, 2024

What the 2024 election tells us about Trump’s voters

Trump made inroads with Hispanic voters, younger voters and voters without a college degree.

November 8, 2024

Trump coalition marks a transformed Republican Party

The former president’s return to the White House was powered by a historic realignment of the American electorate, upending decades of traditional support.

November 6, 2024
Donald Trump speaks to supporters at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, early Wednesday.

Majority of swing-state voters say they fear violence if Trump loses

The poll found that two-thirds of voters in states likely to decide the election do not think Donald Trump would accept defeat.

October 30, 2024
Voters attend a town hall meeting featuring Vice President Kamala Harris and former congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, Wisconsin, on Oct. 21.

This Arizona border town shows one path to a Trump victory

Across the country, people in places with low rates of college education are considering voting for a Republican — or voting at all — for the first time.

October 28, 2024

How swing-state voters weigh health-care issues in the 2024 election

Health care ranks as the fourth-most important issue in a Washington Post-Schar School poll of battleground state voters, prioritized by Harris and Trump voters alike.

October 26, 2024
Demonstrators with March for Medicare for All, dressed as zombies, make their way to the U.S. Capitol on July 29, 2022.

    A guide to the 7 battleground states that could swing the election

    Everything you need to know about the seven battleground states — including how Harris or Trump could win each of them.

    October 21, 2024

    Harris and Trump locked in dead heat in seven-state poll, with some voters still deciding

    Former president Donald Trump shows strength in Arizona while Vice President Kamala Harris runs strongest in Georgia, according to a Post-Schar School survey.

    October 21, 2024
    Voters wait in line to cast their ballots during early voting Wednesday in Atlanta.