guardian.co.uk Politics:
Labour has good progressive policies but they need to be delivered with convictionIt's 10pm on 6 May 2010 and the polls have just closed on election night.The news begins with a sensational item. Nick Robinson says that a BBC (Read More)
Open Left - Front Page:
In one of the first diaries of this series, we noted that 90% of John McCain's votes came from white voters. More specifically though, 83% of John McCain's votes came from white Christian voters. As a proportion of the elec (Read More)
NY Post:
Parents love ThompsonBill Thompson may have lost the mayoral election, but he won parents’ votes.According to an exit poll by The New York Times, 55 percent of public school parents who voted for mayor selected Thompson. (Read More)
Open Left - Front Page:
When Reagan was first elected, only one percent of voters (and six percent of the population) were Hispanic. Just five years previously, jurisdictions with Hispanic voters had been added to the list of areas covered by the V (Read More)
Open Left - Front Page:
Apache County, Arizona is home to portions of the Fort Apache and Navajo communities, and was estimated to be 73% Native American in 2007. The Voting Rights Act and its subsequent amendments have had quite an impact in this (Read More)
MSNBC:
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroIf you're looking for the full 2009 exit polls, here they are:2009 New Jersey Exit Poll2009 Virginia Exit PollAnd here's a compilation of some of what we've written over the past few days going in (Read More)
The Corner:
I have a piece on the topic here. Karlyn Bowman writes: Perhaps more striking than the overall numbers were the results among working women. Twenty-eight percent of women checked the exit poll box indicating that they worked (Read More)
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right:
Karl Rove:The trend here is that suburban and independent voters moved into the GOP column. The overall shift away from Democrats was 13 points in Virginia, 12 points in New Jersey, and eight points in Pennsylvania. [...]Look (Read More)
The Guardian:
Obama administration shrugs off Republican wins after independent voters deserted Democratic partyOn the first anniversary of Barack Obama's presidential victory, Democratic leaders today began an inquest into their election (Read More)
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Some televised reports of exit poll data last night suggested that seniors had supplied Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell with large margins in their winning campaigns. Glenn Reynolds writes this morning that the... (Read More)
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right:
The outcome of all seven contests that we were tracking tonight appears settled, or very nearly so:Virginia Governor: Republican Bob McDonnell wins by 17 points, toward the upper end of the range predicted by the pollsters, a (Read More)
CNN Political Ticker:
(CNN) - Independents appear to be playing an important role in the country's two off-year gubernatorial races and in both states, they are voting Republican.In Virginia, where 30 percent of voters identify themselves as inde (Read More)
CNN Political Ticker:
Bob McDonnell is leading Creigh Deeds in Virginia's gubernatorial race (Photo credit: Getty Images)(CNN) - Republican Bob McDonnell is leading Democrat Creigh Deeds in Virginia's gubernatorial race, according to CNN exit poll (Read More)
CNN Political Ticker:
(CNN) – On Tuesday, 61 percent of men voted for Republican Bob McDonnell, CNN's projected winner in the race for governor of Virginia. Democrat Creigh Deeds got just 38 percent of the male vote, according to early CNN Exit Po (Read More)
CNN Political Ticker:
(CNN) - As voters went to the polls in Virginia Tuesday to elect a new governor, the economy was on their mind.83 percent said they are very or somewhat worried about economic conditions, according to early CNN Exit Poll data (Read More)
CNN Political Ticker:
Exit polls: Voters divided on President Obama's performance.(CNN) - Tuesday's two races for governor offer a snapshot on how Americans feel President Obama is handling his job.Virginia voters are essentially split, accordin (Read More)
Open Left - Front Page:
New Jersey Governor (71% reporting)Corzine (D)Daggett (I)Christie (R)44%5%50%Update 11: This thread will no longer update.Update 10--Christie wins: Damn it, damn it, damn it. AP calls it for Christie. Don't expect the projec (Read More)