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Here are some early data from today’s exit polls:
Voters around the country are intensely worried about the economy and dissatisfied with the way the federal government is working.
According to an Associated Press analysis of preliminary exit poll results and pre-election polls, voters say the economy eclipses any other issue as their top concern. Nearly all voters are worried about the future direction of the economy, and about 4 in 10 say they are worse off financially than they were two years ago.
Voters are expressing dissatisfaction with President Barack Obama and the Congress, and they don’t have a favorable view of either the Democratic or Republican parties.
Democrats are at 43/53 fav/unfav. Republicans are at 41/53. Obama’s at 45/54.
Self-described conservatives have jumped from 34% of the voting electorate to 41%. Yound voters are 9% of the electorate, down from 12% in 2006. African-Americans are at 10% of the electorate.
None of these really portend a very good night for the Democrats. About the only thing they can hang their hats on: voters do not want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, by a count of 47-41.
UPDATE: Interesting:
Voters think the economy’s a wreck…but who’s to blame? Thirty-five percent of voters in early exit polls pin the blame on Wall Street. The next name on the list: former President Bush – 29 percent point their fingers in his direction. President Obama follows, at 24 percent.
I’ve seen some raw Senate numbers which I’m not going to post, but broadly speaking they’re in line with expectations. We’ll know soon enough.
UPDATE II: Several sites have now leaked those Senate exits, so you can find them. Outside of IL-Sen, this is basically as expected, with Washington, California, Colorado and Nevada looking decent for the Democrats. Does the wave crest at the Rockies?
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Mr. Bipartisan thought he could salvage the economy by following the advice of Republicans in the guise of Geithner and Summers by merely offering up huge tax cuts with measly spending. No real vision just an accommodater and appeaser.
All I think you can say from this exit poll is that Mark Kirk is going to win. I still think Reid and Bennet are going to lose, but I could be wrong about Bennet.
Nice to see that the voters actually got that one correct. The responsibility does pretty flow down hill that way. Not that I’m pleased at all with Obamaco and how they’ve handled this. No, not one bit. But W certainly played a big role in this, and I’ll shut my yap about Wall St at this point.
They may have “gotten” that right but that’s not stopping them from voting for the very people that caused it. Obama could have taken bold steps to address the economy and he chose the easy way. Mr. “Let’s Play Nice” is deserving of the oncoming impeachment, for all the wrong reasons of course.
anyone have any idea how russ is doing?
The word that comes to mind is “disillusionment.” The voters elected the Democrats on the basis of a stated agenda that they liked. The Democrats have not made a very good effort at enacting the key features of that agenda. Who can blame them for being angry?
But Rahm Emanuel logic that they have nowhere else to turn was very, very wrong.