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.)

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FUD factor

[feoh.livejournal.com]

My personal fear all along with this election had been that people would cave to the Republicans superior FUD generating apparatus and vote Bush along the "terrorists are scary! We've got to do something!" line.

Kind of a disappointing indictment of the voting American public.

While waiting in line on election day I found myself thinking "Yay all these people coming out in droves who'd never have voted otherwise, voting for Kerry!" - How naive I was thinking that the same wouldn't hold in the opposite direction in many other states of the union.

Ah well, hopefully those of us who care will see this as a challenge to become more outspoken and active than ever, showing the far right that we are a sizable minority and one that should be heeded.