Word: exits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exit polls showed that Reagan did worse among voters ages 18 to 24 than he did with any other age group, splitting them evenly with Carter at 44%. On Tuesday young voters went 60% to 40% for Reagan. What changed their minds? A University of Alabama student leader may have answered at a Reagan rally last month when he declared, "Mr. President, we feel with you in office that when we graduate...
...more voters earned, the more likely they were to vote for Reagan, according to ABC's exit polls. Only among the very poor did Mondale win big. Those earning less than $5,000 a year chose the Democrat by 69% to 31%, while those in the $5,000-to-$10,000 range supported Mondale 53% to 46%. Voters earning between $10,000 and $20,000 went for Reagan by 52% to 48%, and those who made more than $50,000 annually gave him a lopsided...
...support among all groups and regions is profoundly disquieting to Democrats. It could in fact be the death knell for the Democratic majority forged during the New Deal. But does it herald a new era of Republican dominance? Even though 38% of the electorate still call themselves Democrats, the exit polls did show an increase in the percentage of voters identifying themselves as Republicans, from 27% in 1980 to 32% in this election. Perhaps more important, more of those under 24 now use the Republican than the Democratic label...
Amid doubts about exit-poll ethics, TV outraces the voters...
Having achieved that feat of prognostication, primarily through exit polling of tens of thousands of people as they left the voting booths, the networks belatedly seemed to realize that they had diminished the drama of their story. If the election was over, why should viewers continue to watch? The answer, in the parlance of the sports mentality that prevails in much of TV news: to see whether Reagan could win a record 50-state sweep or Mondale's "prevent defense," as Rather called it at one point, could hold him off. As it grew probable that Minnesota would spare...