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(125,848 posts)... Jones is garnering support from more than a quarter of white voters, up by double digits over the 15 percent support Barack Obama received in the 2012 presidential election, the last year exit polls were conducted in the state. White voters make up a majority of Alabama voters and large majority of whites still support Moore - about 7 in 10 in early data - but he is significantly underperforming past Republicans among white groups ...
Almost a quarter of special election voters call themselves liberal, higher than 16 percent in presidential election exit polls in 2012 election and 12 percent in the 2008 election, the two most recent years where data are available ...
White evangelical Christians are the only group showing slight signs of slippage, making up 44 percent of voters compared with 47 percent of the states electorate in both 2012 and 2008 ...
By a roughly 20-point margin, more female Alabama voters say allegations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore true than say they are false ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/alabama-exit-polls/?utm_term=.8c2d51de4ef8