Looking Forward – Part 2: Good Signs from the Exit Polls

This is the second part in a four part series about looking forward. This is essentially the same diary I posted on Daily Kos, though I might change a few things since it’s been a few days. Yesterday I reviewed some of the bad signs from the exit polls for Obama and the Democrats.  Today [...]

Looking Forward – Part 1: Bad Signs from the Exit Polls

This is the first part in a four part series about looking forward.  This is essentially the same diary I posted on Daily Kos, though I might change a few things since it’s been a couple days Obviously Tuesday’s elections were a “shellacking” as Obama put it (or a “thumping” as Bush said after the [...]

Who Voted for Who?

Daily Kos did something which I eventually probably would have done, but hadn’t actually gotten around to doing yet: looking at the breakdown of the vote for each party by ideology. The exit polling already did a breakdown of party breakdown by ideology: Liberal (20%) Democrat – 90% Republican – 8% Other – 3% Moderate [...]