Month: November 2006

Evangelicals Move to The Dems?

Fascinating exit poll data:

Almost a third of white evangelicals voted for Democrats in today’s election, according to early exit polls reported by The Associated Press. Most of them cited corruption as an important factor in their decision.

That’s a change from the 2004 presidential election when 78 percent of white evangelicals voted for Bush and 21 percent voted for Kerry. That was a recent peak in evangelical attachment to Republicans.

In the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, evangelicals constituted 23 percent of the electorate.

Today’s early numbers seem to show that Democrats have been able to recapture some of that huge block.

K-Lo and Faith Hill

Two people finally coming out of denial. Here’s Kathryn-Jean Lopez. Question for K-Lo who insisted that Santorum was headed for victory. Did you really believe that or were you pretending to believe it in order to help Santorum win? Are you nuts or just a partisan fanatic? I don’t see a third option. Here’s Faith Hill, channeling K-Lo:

Quote of the Night So Far

I just heard Michael Barone say about Indiana that (from memory):

The Republican turnout machine may have worked very well but some of their voters may not have voted Republican.

Maybe they’re conservatives. Wouldn’t it be heavenly if Karl Rove turned out large numbers of voters who went on to vote Democratic or Independent?

More Leaked Data

From Doug Ireland’s source. I cannot independently verify these, they may not pan out, etc., etc., but I see no reason not to pass them on to you. 

RHODE ISLAND: D-53, 47

VIRGINIA D-52, R-47

ARIZONA D-46, R-50

CONNECTICUT Lieberman up 4 points

FLORIDA D-62, R-36

MISSOURI D-50, R-48

NEW JERSEY D-50, R-46

NEW YORK D-68, R-30

OHIO D-57, R-42

PENNSYLVANIA D-57, R-42

MARYLAND D-53, R-46

MONTANA D-50, R-48