Exit polls

[dougo]

CNN.com has full exit poll results. (Yes, the exit polls during the day were grossly inaccurate, but they became accurate by the end.) There's plenty to chew on here, but I'm not going to right now, except to point out that the "moral values" thing is really overblown—it seems clear that concerns about terrorism had a much bigger effect on the election. I think there's really just a huge number of single-issue voters like Dennis Miller and Ron Silver: socially and economically liberal, but "killing the bad guys" trumps everything else.

(Thanks to chrismwage and wonkette for the links.)

Comments

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the moral values link. One thing I thought was interesting: Meyer says that "terrorism and Iraq", lumped together, would be considered the voters' biggest concern. But it's clear from the results that, in fact, most voters don't consider them a single issue. Terrorism voters went strongly for Bush, Iraq voters for Kerry.

Without doubt there are similar schisms to be found inside "moral values". His main point--that the arbitrariness of the list of "issues" makes it hard for respondents' answers to tell us much--is well taken.