Doug Henwood Talks

Data connoisseurs: CNN has detailed exit poll data at . That’s the national House electorate, which is the broadest;
other versions are available too.

Items of note:

• the gender gap was about 8 points (women for Dems, that is)

• white men went 9 points for Reps; white women, 1 point for Reps

• nonwhite men went 52 points for Dems; nonwhite women, 57 points

• income is a good predictor of vote, in a near-perfect stairstep
  pattern

• union households (23% of the total) went Dem by 30 points

• white Protestants (44% of the electorate) went Rep by 24 points

• white evangelical/born againers (24% of the total) went Rep by 42
  points

• lesbigay (3%) went Dem by 51 points

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