Truemors
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Wisconsin is showing strong exit polling for John McCain. Keep it here and check back thoughout the night for updates as they happen. When the Polls close we will switch to our Real time election results. Please post your photos from Wisconsin election polling places, Candidate parties, and whatever will add to the expierince for NowPublic Readers. You make the news!
8:14 pm -Exit polls: A party divided?
(CNN) — There’s a fault line running through Wisconsin’s Democratic primary voters in early exit polls Tuesday. Nearly 6 in 10 percent of voters who support Hillary Clinton said they would be satisfied if Barack Obama was the party’s nominee; 40 percent said they would not. But the reverse doesn’t hold true: a slim majority of Obama voters said they would not be satisfied if Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee.
Likely Republican nominee John McCain, who has struggled to win over his party’s conservative base, fares better in that respect than either of his potential fall opponents: among voters who backed Mike Huckabee in Wisconsin’s GOP primary, 65 percent – — said they’d be happy to support McCain in the fall.
7:59 pm -
McCain voters made up 70 percent of those most concerned about Iraq, the polls showed, while Huckabee voters made up 39 percent of those most concerned about the economy. Sixty-one percent of the Wisconsin GOP voters said the economy was either not good or poor.
The polls also showed that voters looking for experience tapped McCain, the four-term Arizona senator, while voters looking for a candidate that shares their values chose Huckabee, the former Baptist minister.
Front-runner McCain is hoping for a win in the Wisconsin primary to push him closer to the Republican nomination. He has won 830 delegates in the previous Republican contests. Last week, he won the endorsement of former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who asked his delegates to vote for McCain at the party's September convention in Minneapolis,
5:39 pm - Wisconsin Exit Polls: A Less Affluent, Less Well-Educated, Economically Sensitive Electorate
Info from our trusty pals at CBS News: this electorate is very white; only four in ten have a "college degree." They're "less affluent" than Dems in other states. The percentage of late deciders is declining: only 27% made up their minds within the last seven days.
-- Issue number one is, of course, the economy, followed by health care... adding the economy and health care brings you to nearly 70% of the electorate.
-- Change trumps experience, 52 to 24.
-- Very few first time voters -- only 17%.
-- 27% of the electorate were independent
-- Clinton was seen as the most unfair attacker;
-- Obama (55%) was seen as the candidate most like to improve relations with the res tof the world.
-- Clinton and Obama are seen as equally qualified to be commander in chief (50% and 48%), while Obama draws 60% or more on the questions of who best can unite the country and beat the Republicans.
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