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The figures released today reflect updated estimates of the voting population based upon the election results. Seventy-two percent (72%) of voters in the sample are white, 13% black, 10% Hispanic, and 3% other. It also reflects a larger share of younger voters compared to our pre-election sample. Additionally, 32% of the voters are Republicans, while 38% Democrats.

Many conservatives and FReepers were misled into a false sense of optimism by the Ras, Gallup, and Pew national numbers showing a +3 Repub. advantage in "self-identification". It turns out that most of that was in solid red states. Also, the "likely voters" vs. "registered voters" distinction was shown to be overblown. That evaporated in the actual ground-game battle (the targeted fraud in a few key counties is a whole separate issue and I won't get into it here).

Furthermore, as Brit Hume said, a non-enthusiastic Zero vote counts the same as an enthusiastic Mitt vote. That might suggest that the "strongly disapprove" is also misleading as to who will actually vote in swing states. Who cares if Zero has a "minus 50" Rasmussen approval index in Idaho and Utah? If I were a GOP strategist, I'd start recruiting serious swing-state pollsters today and putting them to work immediately, focusing on issues rather than on party ID; that's all that matters in the end.