AP News Exit Poll

[Nokillmessanger]

https://apnews.com/article/virginia-election-ap-votecast-survey-75520c5c9a245bee384526abc138a61a

This is a much more optimistic exit poll for us Dems.

56% say Virginia economy is in good shape (YoungKlan made it a focus in the campaign).

6 in 10 favored legal and fair access to abortion.

The economy and Pandemic were the top two issues.

More info at the link.

Edit: I do not put as much into exit polls as some, but I need something right now.

[Lovie777]

1. Interesting . . ..

Whiplash going on on this board.

[Nokillmessanger]

2. Trying

Trying to stay positive. Wish there was some info on NJ.

[Mike 03]

3. That's better, especially the two top issues.

It's a relief to see that "school boards" isn't in the top two.

Thanks for sharing that.

[Indykatie]

4. Despite the Media Drama About Polls I'll Be Surprised if T Mac Doesn't Win by More than 4 Points

[H2Oart]

5. Either way

Either way this election goes, there must be an awakening in this party. I don’t want to see a higher % of older voters, but I want to see the young educated voters lead the way. I am late 60’s and have been voting since 18.

If we don’t want to see a right wing coup take over, old white men telling a woman that at 6 weeks they need to do this or that, but can’t do this or that, continued threats against blacks, Asians, Latinos, seniors, women, LGTBQ, then we MUST CONVINCE OUR YOUNG CITIZENS TO VOTE.

If things don’t go as hoped today, remember, we have a year before midterms, and a lot can change by then.

[OrlandoDem2]

6. It'll never change. The 18-30 demographic has often skipped voting for 50 years.

[Marius25]

8. And I will never understand why.

When they sit out, Republicans win and make everything they care about worse.

If 18-30 year olds had like 90% turnout, Republicans would never win.

[LiberalArkie]

10. They voted when they had something to loose. They stopped voting when the draft was eliminated.

[Dawson Leery]

7. kick

[honest.abe]

9. That looks better.

[OMGWTF]

11. Exit polls used to be a very accurate, until 2000.

[Progressive Jones]

14. It's now common practice for Rightie to lie in exit polls. Garbage like Limbaugh, et al,

have told their drooling fans to do this.

[ShazamIam]

12. That is interessting when the political pundits are telling us it is all about CRT and the schools.

[iluvtennis]

13. This for posting this - some positive vibes....the network coverage is so negative and all but

calling the race for Youngkin even though there is lots of early vote and mail in votes to count.

There's still nearly 30% of the vote to be counted, so I'm sending out positivity that Terry McAuliffe can pull it out.

BTW, Welcome to DU @Nokillmessanger

[Apollo Zeus]

15. 25% said they got up and voted because of (fake) CRT

>A quarter of Virginia voters said the debate over teaching critical race theory in schools was the single most important factor in their vote for governor, and 71% of those voters backed Youngkin.<

That's enough to swing an election.

Bill Clinton won on a message about the economy -- "It's the economy stupid."
Obama likewise -- "Hope and Change"

Telling people everything is fine when food is up 20% and gas is $4.50 just seems out of touch. Time to fire some consultants.

And they need to do something about the Lincoln Project meddler/grifters. Those Republicans are sucking up million$ in Dem donations and spending it on counter-productive things like the tiki torch disaster which completely fed the GOP narrative about underhanded techniques. In 2020 they spent a portion of the donations they got raising more donations from Dems and pocketed millions. They are worse than leaches and they need to be stopped or countered.