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CNN Announces First Exit Polls
TalkLeft — ... about to announce first exit polls. I'll update. Top Issue: The Economy, 62% said it's the top issue on their minds. Iraq? 10%. Terrorism, health care: 9%. The exit polls are done at the polling places. They get a questionnaire. Every sixth or so voter gets them. What about those who mailed in their ballots or early voters? No exit polls, but they are telephoned, land line or cell, and asked the same questions. CNN's exit polls will be available here. First polls close at 6pm ET. ...

Pat yourselves on the back America
Rising Hegemon — Not bad: More than 130 million people turned out to vote Tuesday, the most ever to vote in a presidential election. With ballots still being counted in some precincts into Wednesday morning, an estimated 64 percent of the electorate turned out, making 2008 the highest percentage turnout in generations.* And that youth vote...came through. Eighteen percent of the electorate and Obama won it with two-thirds of the vote. *Note, this is in dispute, the Great Orange Satan says this ...

Palin and Immigration
Weekly Standard Blog — ... " for illegal immigrants, but Rubin is right that Palin was merely making a factual statement in her interview with Lauer: Hispanics voted overwhelmingly for Obama, and this is a big ...

Obama and Catholics
The American Spectator — ... at the Huffington Post recently, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards interpreted Obama's 9-point win over John McCain (54-45%) among the 27% of the electorate who call themselves Catholic to be a consequence of Obama's "commonsense agenda" on abortion. Richards adds that Obama won Catholics "despite entreaties from Catholic leadership to vote against Senator Obama because of his support for abortion rights." ...

Paul Jenkins: The GOP's White Supremacy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Of course, we know this is not the case. John McCain lost by a margin of 90% among African-Americans, and 2 to 1 among other ethnic and racial minority groups, and young people. The future hardly belongs to a party who is falling further and further behind among the fastest-growing demographic groups, and among those who will be voting for decades to come. Republicans' problems go well beyond their dreadful record of the past decade and their wrong-footed policies, although neither helps. As it shrinks, the GOP is becoming ever-whiter, more male, more Southern, more ...

NYT Blog: Women Are Dreaming of Having Sex With Obama
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Honestly, if this is the way liberal women think about our leaders, it explains why Obama easily carried the female vote in November, and supports Ann Coulter's ...

Paul Jenkins: Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... for the winner of the popular presidential vote in every election since 1988. It is also one of nineteen states in which white voters chose Obama over McCain, from Colorado to New Hampshire and Oregon to Michigan. It is worth keeping in mind that in 2004 Kerry received a majority of the white vote in just ...

The Declining Significance of Reagan Voters
Matthew Yglesias — ... I think this nails the basic problem with nostalgia for the Reagan electoral coalition. When Reagan won in 1980, the younger people allowed to vote were born in 1962. In the last election, voters who are at least that old were somewhat more than half the electorate and John McCain did fine with this group: ...

Women to GOP: Just Not That Into You
Politics Daily — ... So what happened? The financial meltdown, for one. Women in 2008 polls were more likely than men to call the economy their number one issue, and most said candidate Barack Obama would do a better job of handling the economy than Sen. John McCain. Obama won with women's vote 56% to 43%. ...

The Binary Fallacy and the End of Both Parties
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — ... Sotomayor is also a woman nominee. Women comprised 53% of the electorate in 2008 and they went for Obama 56% to 43% for McCain. Many of those women are working and struggle with fools like Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich on a regular basis. ...

The Health Care Generation Gap
Matthew Yglesias — ... It’s certainly interesting that older Americans are disproportionately likely to be hostile to Barack Obama’s plans for health care reform and also the case that most older Americans already benefit from a Canadian-style program of universal Medicare. That said, I don’t think these facts are quite as interesting as some people are making them out to be. Consider the results of the election: ...

There’s Assertion, And Then There’s Fact
Oliver Willis — In Commentary, Jennifer Rubin writes a whole lot of blah blah blah about how liberals are afraid of Liz Cheney and how she’s totally awesome and she’s just like Sarah Palin and OMG you knowz what that means and whatnot. Then she writes this: She threatens their claim to the moral high ground and their assertion that women voters belong to the Left. Well, let’s go to the tape. In 2008, women voters went for Obama over McCain by a margin of 56%-43%. In 2004, an election Democrats lost, Kerry ...