Some Election Numbers

Here are a few observations on the elections. I think it’s interesting how economic factors aren’t as important as concerns involving race or education.

The national exit poll on House races showed that:

Nearly twice as many Democrats voted for Republican candidates as vice-versa.

Democrats won voters making less than $100,000 by a margin of 49% to 48%. That’s not much at all. Over $100,000, the GOP won 58% to 40%.

Whites who make under $50,000 went for the GOP 54% to 43%.

White college grads voted 6% more Democratic than non-college grads. But non-white college grads voted 6% less than Democratic than non-white non-college grads.

I think “moderate” has become a replacement for “liberal” for people who don’t like that word. Thirty-nine percent of voters call themselves moderate and they went for the Democrats 56% to 42%.

It looks like “independent” does the same thing for people who don’t like to call themselves Republicans. Independents went for the GOP by 55% to 39%.

On the question of the stimulus—33% said it has helped the economy, 33% said it has hurt the economy and 32% said it has made no difference.

Here’s something that would have made no sense 80 years ago: Thirty-five percent of voters blame Wall Street for our economic problems. They broke for Republicans 56% to 42%.

Posted by on November 3rd, 2010 at 12:07 pm


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