Bright spot in ABC exit polling. Dems beating Republicans in East and West

[Quixote1818]

Go to the bottom of the page: http://abcnews.go.com/politics/2010_elections/National?ep=house

What this means is we will lose big in the middle of the country but hold our ground or even gain on each coast.


Preliminary Data - National Region (9,525 respondents)
Voted For Democrat (D) Voted For Republican (R)

East
21% of Respondents 53% 45%

Midwest
26% of Respondents 44% 53%

South
30% of Respondents 40% 58%

West
23% of Respondents 50% 48%

[MidwestTransplant]

1. That's the problem with those generic exit polls. Go into the deep south and you skew the numbers

huge.

[tritsofme]

3. delete

meant to reply to OP

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. !!!!

[tritsofme]

4. Without historical context, those numbers don't say a heck of a lot.

[Toucano]

5. Can exit polling still tell us anything?

Considering all the early voting that happens now, is there any value to exit polls?

[Toucano]

6. Can exit polling still tell us anything?

Considering all the early voting that happens now, is there any value to exit polls?

[marmar]

7. This income/race stat was interesting......

Under 50k and White
27% of Respondents 43%(D) 54%(R) :wtf:

Over 50k and White
53% of Respondents 38%(D) 60%(R)

Under 50k and Non-white
10% of Respondents 83%(D) 15%(R)

Over 50k and Non-white
10% of Respondents 71%(D) 28%(R)

[BanTheGOP]

8. Exit polling only tells us how much the GOP needs to cheat

..to win the districts. F*** exit polling.

[JI7]

9. not sure it means much, California and New York are probably the reason

for this. what if you excluded those states.