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Television networks have sponsored national election day exit polls since 1972 to make better predictions of election outcomes and to assemble data on who voted and why. The election night clues are crucial to the sponsoring organizations, but it is the rich demographic and opinion information that lives on and serves as grist for years of election analysis.
Data are collected from voters as they enter caucuses or exit polling places on election day and, in some states, from telephone interviews with absentee or early voters. This exit poll tool allows you see how key groups voted (and how big they were) in some of the early states.
By Voter Demographic
- Ideology: Democratic | Republican
- Party identification: Democratic | Republican
- Evangelical/"born-again" Christian: Democratic | Republican
- Sex by race: Democratic | Republican
- Age: Democratic | Republican
- Race: Democratic | Republican
- Religion: Democratic | Republican
- Sex: Democratic | Republican
Other Voter Characteristics
- Education: Democratic | Republican
- Family income: Democratic | Republican
- Family's financial situation: Democratic | Republican
- Marital status: Democratic | Republican
- Sex by marital status: Democratic
- Religion among whites: Democratic | Republican
- How often attend religious services: Democratic | Republican
- White evangelical Protestant: Republican
- When did you finally decide for whom to vote?: Democratic | Republican
- Population of area: Democratic | Republican
- Union household: Democratic
- First-time voters: Democratic
- Do you or does someone else in your household own a gun?: Democratic
Behind the Numbers
Ideology in Maryland
Huckabee won very conservative voters in Maryland and Virginia. | Read more »
Latinos in California
Clinton beat Obama by about two to one among Latino voters in California. | Read more »
Issues and Candidate Attributes
- If Clinton and McCain are the only candidates, for whom would you vote?: Democratic Party
- If Obama and McCain are the only candidates, for whom would you vote?: Democratic Party
- Married: Democratic Party
- Regardless of how you voted today, which one of these candidates do you think would be more likely to beat John McCain in November?: Democratic Party
- When did you finally decide for whom to vote in the presidential primary?: Democratic Party
- Which best describes your family's financial situation?: Democratic Party
- Which ONE of these four issues is the most important facing the country?: Republican Party
- Which ONE of these three issues is the most important facing the country?: Democratic Party
- Issues vs. attributes: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Which ONE of these four candidate qualities mattered most in deciding how you voted today?: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Do you think the condition of the nation's economy is: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Most illegal immigrants working in the United States should be: Republican Party
- What should the U.S. do in Iraq?: Democratic Party
- Which comes closest to your position? Abortion should be: Republican Party
- Which comes closest to your feelings about the Bush administration?: Republican Party
- Which should be a higher priority for the next president?: Republican Party
By State
- Arizona: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- California: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Florida: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Georgia: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Illinois: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Indiana: Democratic Party
- Iowa: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Kentucky: Democratic Party
- Maryland: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Massachusetts: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Missouri: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- New Hampshire: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- New Jersey: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- New York: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- North Carolina: Democratic Party
- Ohio: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Oregon: Democratic Party
- Pennsylvania: Democratic Party
- South Carolina: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Tennessee: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Texas: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Virginia: Democratic Party | Republican Party
- Wisconsin: Democratic Party | Republican Party
These entrance and exit polls were conducted by Edison/Mitosfky for the National Election Pool, The Washington Post and other media organizations. The NEP is a consortium of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News and the Associated Press. The margin of sampling error for individual surveys is about four percentage points; it is higher for subgroups. The states included here are those that the Post purchased from the NEP. For comprehensive data see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14685359/.
