Exit Polls

As the nation waits for election results, they have already shown their major concerns in exit polls. More than half of the country is more worried over the economy than anything, though neither party got good marks either.

One of the biggest tells to how an election might play out is the exit polls that are designed to find out how people are voting as they leave the polling sites. Without them, everyone has to wait for the final results to know outcome.

Tonight's special election between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley won't have exit polls until much later. But the dominant narrative is that Coakley has already lost due to ominous early polls and constant chatter that the Democrats are now finished.

CNN, ABC, MSNBC, the Gallup Poll, etc are turning in their results and releasing them to you as they count them. Find out how your state is voting and make your own predictions of who will be the next president.

When citizens of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, posted their election results, there's not much doubt about how each voted.

In the rush to find out about the election, the early exit polls are highly anticipated, even though they were unreliable in 2004. The networks may still use them to call the race early.

Don't believe everything you see. It might turn out to be untrue.

Going into the Pennsylvania Primary, the Clinton camp needed a victory in the worst way to legitimize their steadfast determination to ride out the primary season even when it is assured that Senator Clinton will end up behind in pledged delegates...

With votes from Pennsylvania's Democratic Primary still being counted, exit polling data is starting to tell people just exactly what voters in Pennsylvania---and perhaps the rest of the nation---are thinking when they head to the polls.

After a bitter battle in Pennsylvania, voters tell why they voted for their candidate.

Clearly Hillary Clinton did what she had to do to survive and fight on.

Much as predicted and as most preliminary polls showed, Senator Barack Obama won the Democratic primary of Mississippi on Tuesday, March 11. At stake were 33 pledged delegates (Mississippi has 7 super delegates for a total of 40).

The Texas exit polls show that support for each candidate comes from the same groups as in previous primaries.

An analysis of the exit polls for Texas, the second big primary tonight in the Clinton/Obama race.

The exit polls in Wisconsin showed that Barrack Obama continues to make strides in creating a larger coalition. He continues to chip away at voters from Clinton's base. Tonight's primary in Wisconsin was another victory in a hot streak for Obama.

State of Wisconsin is holding Democratic presidential primary today. With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton running neck to neck, at this stage every delegate counts.

Senator Hillary Clinton needs a victory in Wisconsin to stay in the race. If she loses, her only hope is victories in next month's primaries in Texas and Ohio.

A look at the important issues and demographics shown in the early Wisconsin exit polls, and what they might mean for Obama, Clinton, and each political party.

Issues are important to today's voters, but what does that mean for the candidates going forward?

As Super Tuesday begins, exit polls results give a few hints as to how well the candidates will perform tonight.

Super Tuesday was supposed to be the make-or-break day for the primaries. But with the polls showing close races between the frontrunning candidates in both parties, Super Tuesday just might end with no clear leaders.

Entering the Democratic South Carolina Primary, many pundits and politicians took issue with the fact that that Bill Clinton was so active in the Hillary Clinton's campaigning efforts.

While I certainly believe that the majority of the voters used genuine and qualified reasons to cast their votes, exit polls suggest that there are enough fools out there to mess up the whole system.

The key Republican primary in Florida reveals some key details about the concerns of Republican voters, and which candidates may have broken away from the pack before Super Tuesday.

According to CBS exit poll data, the South Carolina Primary voting electorate were predominantly African-Americans who voted almost 78% for Obama. Democratic voters came out in record numbers (532,000), nearly doubling voter turnout in 2004 (280,000).

The South Carolina Primary is over and Barack Obama came out hands down the winner. While it was projected that Obama would take South Carolina in the days leading up to the Primary

The South Carolina Primary exit polls revealed many key issues in the democratic race. The results of these polls will certainly shape the future campaign practices of the Democratic Party hopefuls.

An early look at how the South Carolina exit polls may provide telling signs for Super Tuesday.

If anything, South Carolina showed us that nothing is certain, and that it really is a delegate race.

Exit polling data from the New Hampshire Primary indicates that Hillary Clinton was helped by a large turn-out of women on the Democratic side. John McCain was helped by independent voters, garnering one-third of the their votes.

Early ballot casting is on the rise, and as many as one-third of voters are expected to cast their ballots before election day.

Several of Hillary Clinton's supporters have threatened to back McCain. Why?

A quick wrap of of the things that didn't matter.