Barack Obama retained enough support from key elements of his base to win reelection, even as he lost ground nationally since 2008. In particular, Obama maintained wide advantages among young people, women, minorities, and both the less affluent and the well-educated. … Evidence of the demographic transformation of the electorate […] Read more »
Divided America Revealed as Women, Hispanics Back Obama
President Barack Obama successfully reassembled his diverse coalition of minority, women and youth voters to propel himself to a second White House term. The victory yesterday came even as the electorate remains divided like two foreign lands, split between men and women, whites and minorities, rich and poor, young and […] Read more »
Election confirms deep ideological divide
The 2012 presidential election confirmed an unpleasant fact about modern American politics: Americans are exceedingly polarized in their political beliefs. The U.S. electorate in 2012 was deeply divided ideologically — and it was reflected in their votes for president. [cont.] Stanley Feldman, Stony Brook, & Jeanne Zaino, Iona (CBS) Read more »
A Draw on the Economy, a Win on Empathy – and the Face of a Changing Nation
Barack Obama neutralized Mitt Romney on the economy, beat him on empathy and again turned the curve of America’s demographic change to Democratic advantage, winning a second term despite an unemployment rate that posed a major threat to his 2012 campaign. Deeply vulnerable on an economy that 77 percent of […] Read more »
Early exit polls: 60% say economy top issue
Sixty percent of voters who cast ballots on Election Day or earlier say the economy is the most important issue in their vote, according to an early CBS News exit poll. … Seventeen percent of voters cited health care as their top issue. … These are early exit polls, and […] Read more »
Edison Research: What To Watch For On Election Night
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