Sadly, my daughter (surrounded by artists and teachers in her everyday life) voted straight dem. BUT...she scratched and voted for Dickerson over Julia Carson, so that is a good thing! I commended her for voting and for being discerning! LOL!
Then I gave my little talk about how it would be a good thing for the African-American community if black votes weren't automatically democrat, using my list of times a well-qualified black dem was up for a job and got overlooked for a white guy (Mondale/Washington, Pelosi/Ford, etc.) She, of course, didn't know any of this. Then she said she thought there was racism in both parties. I told her, perhaps so, but we run black candidates for Senate and are proud to have had two black secretaries of state while the democrats put them in token jobs, and I was proud of our party's position on race.
Said very nicely, but I am working on her for the general election in two years, and the GOP vote for 7th district Congress over Julia Carson, the Embarassment of Indiana, was a good first step.
...NETWORKS ONLY AGREE TO EMBARGO POLLING DATA UNTIL 5 PM--MANY POLLS OPEN LATER THAN THAT...
...IGNORE THE EXIT POLL DATA--NOTE THESE WORDS FROM DICK MORRIS IN 2004...
The networks did get the exit polls wrong. Not just one of them. They got all of the Bush states wrong.
NOTE THAT--EVERY REPUBLICAN STATE WAS WRONGLY PREDICTED BY EXIT POLLING IN 2004!
[Source: Dick Morris, "Those Faulty Exit Polls Were Sabotage," The Hill, 11/4/04]
Give your daughter some time. As she gets a little older her eyes will open and she'll realize everything you told her is correct.