Word: exits
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Still, Mondale owed much to the backing of the state's Democratic leaders-New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and particularly Governor Mario Cuomo. In exit polling, 20% of New York voters said they were influenced by the endorsements, and 90% of that group voted for Mondale. Virtually taking control of Mondale's campaign, serving as both surrogate and spokesman for the former Vice President, Cuomo established himself as a national figure in his own right...
...Exit polls support Russert: voters did doubt Hart's experience and steadiness. But as Hart points out, he had only six weeks to get his message across to a public that had barely heard of him before the Iowa caucuses (in early February, only 15% of Democratic voters could name him as a candidate). The intense magnification of instant celebrity made even Hart's slightest slip look like a lurch and sent voters scurrying into the safer, more familiar embrace of Mondale...
...literally marching hundreds of parishioners from a Harlem church to a nearby polling place, Jackson inspired an outpouring of black voters without precedent in the Empire State. An estimated 270,000 blacks cast ballots, easily double the turnout for the Carter-Kennedy primary in 1980. According to various exit polls, anywhere from 84% to 92% of them pulled the voting-machine lever for Jackson, well exceeding the percentages he drew in earlier primaries in Illinois and the South...
...Willy can contrive to make his demise look like an accident, then he will have achieved in death what he never could in life-a legacy for his family and, better still, that edge on the system for which he had always angled. When Hoffman makes his final exit, he actually does a little shimmy and shake, so eager is his salesman for this last but most promising road trip...
...exit surveys do serve a useful purpose: they provide information about the demographic profiles of the candidates' supporters. Some of the findings are instructive-that Hart's voters are younger than Mondale's, for example, or that 20% of Jesse Jackson's black voters had registered within the past several months-but the statistics belie the often impulsive, unarticulated motives for voting. Last week, in an effort to restore some mystery and fun to the electoral process, Chicago Tribune Columnist Mike Royko offered some advice to voters confronted by exit pollsters. "Don't give them...