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 »
Nine Things to Think About on Election Night
Nine interesting things to think about as we await the election results: [cont.] Frank Newport, Gallup Read more »
Economy and immigration are top issues to Latino voters
The ImpreMedia-Latino Decisions Election Eve Poll of 5,600 Latino voters has indicated that the Economy/Jobs and Immigration were the most important issues to Latino voters in 2012. [cont.] Latino Decisions Read more »
Jumping to Conclusions on the 2012 Elections
If there is one thing that you can probably bet on, it is that the winners and losers in today’s balloting will draw the wrong conclusions from the outcome. The winner of the presidential election — of 270 votes in the Electoral College — will almost certainly see his victory […] Read more »
How Deep is Support for Romney Among Mormons Nationally?
Given their shared faith, it should come as no surprise that Mormons support Mitt Romney for president. Among the nearly 1,500 Mormons in the 2012 YouGov/CCES national data (look below for details), 77 percent said they planned to vote (or already voted) for Romney. [cont.] Quin Monson, Brigham Young U. […] Read more »
Tom Holbrook: Final Forecast
Jay has finished gathering the last of the state and national polling data and we now have a final forecast: Electoral College: Obama 303, Romney 235 National Popular Vote (two-party): Obama 51.4%, Romney 48.6% Based state and national polls, as well as historical patterns of party support in the states, […] Read more »