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The dust is settling on the 2024 election after President-elect Trump’s unexpectedly comfortable victory. Now both parties are looking to the exit polls for lessons as to how Trump won, why Vice President Harris lost — and how the trends might affect future elections. There are some important caveats, including that some exit polls are still being updated by fresh data even days after the election. Also, there are two major surveys. One is an exit poll conducted by Edison Research for a media consortium comprised of ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN. Another is a voter analysis for the Associated...

When exit polls began to be released on Tuesday night, it appeared to contain a nugget that augured well for Kamala Harris. In the end, it didn't. Americans were asked who they trusted more to handle the economy. It was a win for Donald Trump — 51% picked him to 47% for Harris — but it was a much more narrow victory than would have been imaginable earlier this year when the former president was trouncing President Joe Biden regularly on the issue. It seemed to be a validation of a strategy for Harris in the final few days of...

NBC News, in conjunction with a consortium of news organizations, conducted exit polling across the country in 10 key states. The polling included speaking with voters at polling places and phone interviews. The exit polls are not results, but instead a look at the thinking and motives of voters across the country. Exit polls help the public better understand the makeup and motivations of the electorate.

OSZ @OpenSourceZone Guam Exit Poll shows Republicans flipping the legislature, which has been Democratic the last 16 years

Virginia is the latest state where more Republican voters believe Joe Biden lost the election than won the election of President Donald Trump. According to CNN a majority or plurality of Republican voters in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Iowa believe Joe Biden did not win the 2020 election. This must be very upsetting for CNN – fake news. CNN EXIT POLL: Do you think Biden legitimately won in 2020? (GOP Primary voters) Virginia Yes — 45% No — 46% . North Carolina Yes — 34% No — 60% . South Carolina Yes — 36% No —...

LAS VEGAS — Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, the first Latina elected to the Senate, will hold onto her seat in Nevada after enduring a bruising campaign against Republican Adam Laxalt, who fell short of ousting the Democrat despite severe midterm headwinds, NBC News projects. The outcome follows days of protracted mail-in ballot counting, with the results resting largely with the state’s most populous county, Clark County, which posted updates once a day since Tuesday. A race long predicted to be within the margin of error was indeed close through the end. Latino voters here helped power the results after both...

Voting chart by sex and marriageMarried men broke Republican by 20 ptsMarried women broke R by 14 ptsUnmarried men broke R by 7 ptsBut *unmarried women* broke D "by whopping 37 pts"~ @conncarroll https://t.co/pGchfHnD0W— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) November 9, 2022 Well, it’s official:Democrats are the party of unmarried women whose most important political issue is ensuring the ability to kill their babies.God help us. pic.twitter.com/g0whI1hEuG— Michael Seifert (@realmichaelseif) November 9, 2022

Voters between the ages of 18 and 29 cast their ballots in favor of Democrats 63 percent of the time in the 2022 elections, exit polling data found. Data from NBC exit polls found that the demographic, comprised of Generation Z and the Millennials, voted 63 percent for Democrats and just 35 percent for the Republicans. The age demographic accounted for 12 percent of the electorate, in contrast to those aged 30 to 44, who made up 21 percent of the electorate and voted 51 percent for Democrats and 47 percent for Republicans, the exit poll data found.

Republican Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin garnered more support from Hispanic voters than Democrat Terry McCauliffe, a Fox News exit poll shows. According to the poll, 54 percent of Hispanic voters backed Youngkin and 45 percent cast their ballots for McCauliffe — a nine percentage point difference for Virginia’s fastest-growing ethnic group. In pre-election analysis from the Washington Post, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University Mark J. Rozell noted that Latino voters are an “emerging powerhouse in Virginia politics.” “It can make a critical, perhaps, the critical difference in this election,” Rozell correctly forecasted.

Now that the media has declared Joe Biden the winner (while the counting is still continuing), we are suddenly hearing from them and Democrats how the nation must come together and accept Biden, that we should not be questioning the election. Democrats literally paid for foreign disinformation and spread the Russia collusion hoax to undermine Donald Trump which was then weaponized through the media and the FBI to undermine his presidency. These are the people who literally rioted from day one of his presidency, refusing to accept the duly-elected president. These are the media folks who twisted and lied about...

Controlling the spread of the coronavirus was a top election issue for the vast majority of voters who have already voted for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, while voters who backed President Donald Trump prioritized economic recovery following the pandemic, reflecting the candidates’ disparate approaches to the pandemic. Regardless of their presidential pick, the coronavirus pandemic weighed heavily on voters’ minds as they cast their ballots, early Morning Consult exit polling shows: 93 percent of those who voted for Biden and 59 percent of those who voted for Trump said controlling the spread of the coronavirus in the United States was...

The Americans who have already voted for Joe Biden are twice as likely as President Trump’s backers to say their vote was more about the rival candidate, showing that negative partisanship is helping fuel the Democratic nominee’s early support. According to Morning Consult’s exit polling, 44 percent of Biden voters described their vote as more against the Republican president than for the Democratic nominee, while 22 percent of Trump voters said they were mostly voting against Biden. Three in 4 Trump voters said they were voting mostly for the president, while 54 percent of Biden voters said the same of...

News media and election watchers have long relied on exit polling to tell them who voted and why they support their chosen candidate on election night, and despite the unprecedented challenges 2020 has presented, this year will be no different. Exit polling traditionally involves interviews with a randomly selected sample of voters conducted as those voters leave their polling places. Unlike preelection polling, where voters can be identified using only screening questions or a history of voting on a voter file, meeting voters where they are ensures that those included in the survey have actually cast their ballots. Advertisement But...

Some Israeli celebrities took to social media on Monday to post about the unprecedented third round of elections in Israel, but many chose not to rock the vote so much as ignore it. Among those who did acknowledge the day were actress/model Yuval Scharf, who posted a picture of herself on Instagram canoodling with her husband, musician Shlomi Shaban, next to the message, "Choose right ♥️ #govote #forabettertomorrow#today"

The last one, held in April, looked like a victory for Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud party. But when Netanyahu failed to get enough support from smaller parties to form a government, he was forced to call new elections. So here we are. The polling for the new election is too close to call. Likud is locked in a tight race with the centrist Blue and White party, which is leading the opposition. The ultimate outcome depends on a lot of things that are really hard to predict, ranging from minor party vote share to post-election parliamentary haggling.

If any of you are watching the end of the elections in India (https://www.republicworld.com/livetv), and looking at the exit polls, looks like the voters have re-elected the incumbent PM. He, like Trump, was hounded by the media and liberal elite. The surprising results from the exit polls is that the poor and destitute in India voted for him and not the parties that were offering hand-outs and uber-socialist sops. Australia rejected the liberals, now India has...next up...the USA.

Exit polls aren't always 100 percent reliable. For example, in 2016, the exit interviews suggested that Donald Trump would lose Florida, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina by small margins. He won all of them. Let's take it as given that 2018's exit polls are likely flawed in the same way. Still, they are among the most interesting polls because they reflect the views of actual voters -- not "registered" or "likely," but the real McCoy. Margins of error we shall always have with us, but they shouldn't stifle all punditry. Some of the data about this year's crop of voters...

All three networks, with the polls still open, are blabbing away about exit polls. They must all be using the same polling agency. Trump is hated by all and the democtarts are seen more favorably than republicans. All the country loves democrats. No one cares how bad Kavansugh was treated. The Dems are loved. 60% say keep Roe v. Wade. Over 60% say we needed stricter gun laws. Over 60% say the government should be responsible for healthcare.

Here we are at the 11th hour. We have seen a substantial amount of data from early and absentee voting, virtually all of it quite good for the Rs but none of it a “knockout” blow where we can absolutely “call” many races. Nationally, Rasmussen today had Donald Trump at 51% approval and the Republicans with a 1 point lead in the generic race. (That’s nice, but never in my life have I voted for Mike or Suzy Generic). One of the untold stories so far is how the fake news media ignores early and absentee voting, which has taken...

Exit poll projects center-left party will win Swedish election, far-right party with white supremacist roots coming in second. STOCKHOLM (AP) — An exit poll indicated that Sweden's first general election since the Scandinavian country accepted a significant number of asylum-seekers was likely to have the center-left party governing now as its winner, but an anti-immigrant party with white supremacist roots placing second in balloting Sunday. Public broadcaster SVT said immediately after polls closed that its exit poll indicated the ruling Social Democrats would remain Sweden's largest party, but making its worst-ever showing with 26.2 percent of the vote. The exit...