So one of the first things TV analysts talk about from election exit polls is how religious groups voted, particularly Protestant evangelicals and Catholics.
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As the nearby results of an election exit-poll question show, Americans who voted in 2012 are more skeptical of government than they were in 2008 or 2004.
Early voting suggests a record 213 million people are eligible to vote this year, said McDonald, who also works with the consortium that conducts election exit polling for broadcast and news networks.
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Exit polls from this election put the Jewish vote at 69% for Obama and 30% for Romney.
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Voting and exit-poll data from election night a month ago reveal much on this score.
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But this - the exit polls showed that this election was a kind of revenge of the middle.
Exit polls from the 2000 election showed that Bush received only 9 percent of the black vote, compared to 90 percent for Democrat Al Gore, and 35 percent of the Latino vote, compared to 62 percent for Gore.
By comparison, Bush received the support of 78 percent of evangelical voters in the 2004 election, according to exit polls.
The bloc -- which was forecast to lose some ground but still win -- earned only 31 in this election, according to exit polling from the daily newspaper Haaretz, a sharp drop.
The first indication of the vote comes from the exit polls conducted by VNS. On Election Day, VNS interviewers stand outside of hundreds of sample precincts across the country.
Netanyahu's Likud Beitenu won 31 Knesset seats in the Israel election, according to three TV exit polls, gaining the most as expected.
With Rick Santorum's exit from the Republican race, the general-election season has arrived.
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Exit polls make clear that the president won re-election in spite of continued opposition to the law, not because voters supported it.
The president of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia appears to have won a second term after exit polls gave him a majority in yesterday's election.
On election day, each side may release its own exit polls and declare victory.
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The risk of a Greek exit from the Euro looms large, ahead of another Greek election on 17 June.
It received a boost when New Democracy proved victorious in a second Greek election, mitigating the risk of a disorderly Greek exit from the Euro.
In Montana, one of two states whose senatorial election was still too close to call on Wednesday morning, exit polls showed that Republican incumbent Sen.
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi won an uncontested presidential election the following year, marking the final stage in the exit of Mr Saleh - the country's longest-serving leader in recent times.
In the 2008 presidential election, voters 65 and older were 16% of the electorate, exit polls show.
Suleiman had said he would not seek the presidency in the first election for the post since the revolution that led to Mubarak's exit.
"What the Greek election does is largely removes from consideration the likelihood of some near-term disorderly Greek exit from the eurozone area, " Kurtz said.
They will monitor the pre-election period, will continue at the polling stations during the voting process, stay for exit polls and be present until the results are published.
And as for all those who will no doubt continue to try to push me into leading a campaign for a U.K. exit, I only have this to say: if I couldn't even win a general election in the depths of a recession with my party united behind me, what makes you think I could win a referendum?
Major benchmarks retreated morning highs after some exit polls showed former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's political party gaining ground in the country's general election.
Some political journalists at Likud headquarters were arguing within hours of the exit polls that the results sent such a confused signal about the political mood in Israel that they made another election likely within a year.
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However, exit polls showed Obama won strong support among women, Latino voters and gay and lesbian voters in the November election that also strengthened the Democratic majority in the Senate and weakened the Republican majority in the House.
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