It’s rare for runoff elections to generate much interest among voters, but Georgia seems primed to be the exception, with its two upcoming Senate runoffs in January that will determine who controls the Senate. Republicans and Democrats are searching the state for new voters, although CBS News exit polling of […] Read more »
The Exit Polls Show The Need To Confront COVID-19 Denial in Red America
Exit polls show that when President Trump accused Democrats of exaggerating the gravity of the COVID -19 pandemic his supporters believed him. Trump supporters showed as they voted that they don’t see COVID-19 as a very urgent problem. It leaves the Biden administration with a massive public re-education challenge in […] Read more »
Election Night Survey: Hidden Trump voters exist, and other key findings
… This election was a referendum on President Trump, and considering the President’s 46%-52% approval score, it did not turn out well for him. While the President scored well with rural voters, evangelicals, lower educated Americans and Hispanic men, his failure to hit his numbers among Independents, especially Independent men, […] Read more »
Trump’s racist appeals powered a White evangelical tsunami
As partisans and analysts puzzle over the higher-than-expected turnout for President Trump (nearly 6 million fewer votes than for President-elect Joe Biden, but still high), they are poring over groups and subgroups: White, non-college-educated men. Suburban women. Young Black men. But much of the Trump 2020 phenomenon can be explained […] Read more »
Biden changed the electoral map, but can Democrats capitalize in the future?
The final projections for the 2020 election brought with them a new electoral map, one that highlights the changing shape of America and the divisions that now define the Democratic and Republican parties in the Trump era. … One major question is whether, without Trump on the ballot in the […] Read more »
Exit poll analysis: Which voters supported Biden or Trump in Georgia and North Carolina?
In Georgia, which has not voted to send a Democrat to the White House since Bill Clinton won the state in 1992, Joe Biden was able to hold onto some traditional Democratic voting groups like Black voters and younger voters while also making inroads with White voters, particularly those with […] Read more »