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Who Votes Republican?
By Mona Charen
November 9, 2018 6:30 AM
Exit polls are useful in explaining Tuesday’s results because they reflect the views of actual voters -- not ‘registered’ or ‘likely.’
Exit polls aren’t always 100 percent reliable. For example, in 2016, the exit interviews suggested that Donald Trump would lose Florida, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina by small margins. He won all of them.
Let’s take it as given that 2018’s exit polls are likely flawed in the same way. Still, they are among the most interesting polls because they reflect the views of actual voters — not “registered†or “likely,†but the real McCoy. Margins of error we shall always have with us, but it shouldn’t stifle all punditry.
Some of the data about this year’s crop of voters is similar to what we’ve seen in past contests, but there are some trends that should give Republicans and Democrats alike cause for reflection.
A majority of voters (56 percent) were over the age of 50. This helped Republicans, as older voters skew more Republican. But it didn’t help as much as it could have because even among older voters, enthusiasm for Republicans was muted. Among those age 50 and above, only half gave their votes this year to a Republican candidate. Among the younger set, by contrast, lopsided percentages voted for Democrats. The 18- to 24-year-olds gave 68 percent of their support to Democrats. Among the 25-to-29s, 66 percent voted Democrat. It was 59 percent among voters in their 30s and 52 percent among those in their 40s.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/midterm-elections-exit-polls-voter-views-republican-democrat/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/midterm-elections-exit-polls-voter-views-republican-democrat/)
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What bothers me is the economy is doing very well, yet people who voted Dem seem to do so along some kind of moralistic line of thinking.
We have a smug and snitty class in this country now that wants things to be according to their left shaped morality, while castigating anyone who doesn't share their world view, thinks the Treasury should be drained and people taxed to death to just hand out to anyone, and that social policy should revolve around illegal immgrants, identity groups, anti-caucasian rage, and penises and vajayjays.
Starting to think half this country is completely without foundation or underpinnings anymore.
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Trump has been meaningful, but temporary, hurdle in the left's trend making identity politics the currency of politics.
-Victims, entitlements, equity based outcomes, dumbed down costly yet worthless schools.
Gut border security.
Michelle Obama looks very strong for the dems' next choice.
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This election should drive a stake through the myth that elections are always about economics. Things can't be better on that subject, yet many idiots, especially idiots who need jobs, voted against their own economic interests.
So why did they reject Republicans? Because they, especially the young, believe in the coming socialist utopia which only Dems will deliver. Republicans are evil,evil, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil.
Because their college educrats and Hollyweird celebrities have told them as much.
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This election should drive a stake through the myth that elections are always about economics. Things can't be better on that subject, yet many idiots, especially idiots who need jobs, voted against their own economic interests.
So why did they reject Republicans? Because they, especially the young, believe in the coming socialist utopia which only Dems will deliver. Republicans are evil,evil, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil.
Because their college educrats and Hollyweird celebrities have told them as much.
Whole electoral process has been boiled down to a "approaching 50%" element of making sure they keep getting stuff.
In their simplistic thinking.......... GOP- Bad. Democrat- Good
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Vulcan wrote:
"What bothers me is the economy is doing very well, yet people who voted Dem seem to do so along some kind of moralistic line of thinking."
Economy don' matter no mo'.
Itz about ideology nowz...