Word: exits
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...across the country, TIME'S bureau chiefs deployed their forces to cover not only the contest for President but also the significant congressional and state races. Correspondents in all of the key cities and state capitals conducted exit polls and monitored the mood of the voters as they cast their ballots. From those hour-by-hour reports, supplemented by insights from expert political observers and party leaders, the bureau chiefs described how Americans in their part of the country voted-and why they voted overwhelmingly for Ronald Reagan...
...emphatic enough at least to raise the question: Might this be the realigning election that could make the Republican candidate, whoever he or she may be, the favorite in future contests for the White House? There is not much hard evidence. The percentage of voters identifying themselves in exit polls as Republicans did rise about five points from 1980, but still was only about 35%. There were some indications, however, that realignment is at least a possibility, given a suc cessful Reagan second term. The election destroyed the long-held assumption that an increase in voting automatically favors the Democrats...
...Northeast and industrial Midwest were supposed to form the geographic base for the liberal Democratic ticket. But exit polls there signaled a pattern that would be repeated across the country: Mondale could not win the voting groups he had to carry to defeat Reagan...
...Jersey, blue-collar voters went for Reagan 57% to 43%, according to NBC'S exit polls. In Pennsylvania, Reagan beat Mondale among voters ages 18 to 24 by 55% to 45%. Reagan won New York's Italian vote by a stunning 63% to 37%, despite the presence of an Italian American from New York, Geraldine Ferraro, on the Democratic ticket. Even 28% of New York's self-described liberals voted for Reagan...
...well in a state known for its liberal lifestyle. The Democrats signed up 660,000 new voters and spent $4 million on a media blitz. But Reagan won by 16 percentage points. Mondale did not fare as well among California Hispanics as he had hoped; according to an ABC exit poll, he beat Reagan by only 62% to 34%. Even 13% of California's blacks chose Reagan...