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Democratic state Sen. Jason Carter, the grandson of former 1-term president Jimmy Carter, has announced he will challenge Gov. Nathan Deal next year in the Georgia gubernatorial contest. Carter hopes Georgia’s changing demographics can help him end the Republican Party’s 12-year domination of state’s highest office.

Carter’s decision, which he announced Wednesday in an exclusive interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, clearly sees his path forward as a replication of his grandfather Jimmy Carter, who was also elected to the state Senate and then the Governor’s Mansion before winning the presidency.

Of course, Carter’s presidency was plagued by the failures of liberal policies, leading him to get trounced by the Republican standard-bearer, Ronald Reagan.

“We can’t wait as a state,” said Jason Carter, who formally announced his candidacy Thursday. “The bottom line is we can’t afford four more years of an economy that’s not working for the middle class and an education system that’s underfunded. It’s not about politics. It’s about making sure we can get the state that we need.”

Carter, 38, becomes the second high-profile Democratic scion to compete for a spot on Georgia’s 2014 ticket. Senate candidate Michelle Nunn, the daughter of former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn, is her party’s front-runner in the crowded contest to replace retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, though as of now she has little chance of defeating him.

“We want a Georgia that’s at its best,” Carter said. “And Georgia at its best invests in education, it doesn’t cut billions out of the classrooms, it has an economy that works for the middle class and it always has an honest government.”

Carter faces the a daunting challenge in a state that has elected Republicans to every statewide office gave Mitt Romney a very large margin of victory just last year. And Gov. Deal has hit the fundraising circuit to increase the $1.1 million he had in his campaign coffers in July.

Deal’s spokesman Brian Robinson said Thursday the governor intends to focus on “keeping Georgia the No. 1 place to do business,” a mantra he repeats around the state.

“We have governed conservatively but we’ve governed pragmatically and we’ve governed with an open door policy. And people have noticed we have something in office who is mature and capable and has a record of success to run on,” said Robinson. “And he will have a vision for the next four years we will make evident.”

Deal, a former nine-term congressman from Gainesville, handily defeated former Gov. Roy Barnes in 2010 and is expected by many pundits to win a second term.

There reason many Democrats are giddy about their chances in Georgia, demographics.

The white proportion of voters shrunk 9 points to 66 percent from 2002 to 2010, and the dive was even more pronounced during presidential election years. Roughly 44 percent of Georgia residents are now minorities — which is up 7 points in the past decade — and nonwhites could outnumber whites here by 2020.

“I wouldn’t be getting in this race if I didn’t think I was going to win,” Carter said. “I’m still mad that I finished second in my law school class. I’m not in this to finish second. I think we have every opportunity to win.”

(Note: Updated polling information is available below, and more on this race can be found on the PeoplesPunditDaily.com 2014 Governor Predictions Map, where is rated “Safe Republican” as it should be.)

Poll Date Sample Deal (R) Carter (D) Spread
Atlanta Journal-Constitution 1/6 – 1/9 802 RV 47 38 Deal +9
InsiderAdvantage 1/6 – 1/6 529 RV 44 22 Deal +22
PPP (D) 8/2 – 8/5 520 RV 48 33 Deal +15
PPP (D) 2/15 – 2/18 602 RV 46 38 Deal +8
PPP (D) 11/30 – 12/2 729 RV 46 38 Deal +8

Democratic state Sen. Jason Carter, the grandson

Opinion

“Obama to campaign to ensure health law’s success” — The New York Times, Nov. 4

WASHINGTON — The Obamacare website doesn’t work. Hundreds of thousands of insured Americans are seeing their plans summarily terminated. Millions more face the same prospect next year. Confronted with a crisis of governance, how does President Obama respond?

He campaigns.

“I’ve got one more campaign in me,” he told grass-roots supporters Monday — a series of speeches and rallies, explains The New York Times, “to make sure his signature health care law works.”

Campaigning to make something work? How does that work? Presidential sweet-talk persuades the nonfunctional Web portal to function?

This odd belief that rhetoric trumps reality leads to strange scenes. Like the ShamWow pitch, Obama’s nationally televised address trying to resell Obamacare. Don’t worry about the website, he said. I’ll get it fixed. And besides, there are alternatives, such as an 800 number that he promptly gave out. Twice.

You half expected him to offer a ShamWow special: Add the mop and get a free year of Obamacare! But the 800 number was more than bad form. It was bad substance. Turns out you can give all the information you want to the person at the other end of the line — or to your friendly community “navigator” — but that person must enter your data into the very same nonfunctioning website.

Doesn’t Obama know this? Does he really think that this TV campaign would work when anybody who actually does what he suggests would find himself still stuck in the same cul-de-sac?

And yet he tried precisely the same tack when the second crisis — the canceled policies — struck.

Last Wednesday, he simply denied reality and said he really hasn’t changed his message from when he promised in June 2009: “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan. Period.”

Instead of simply admitting he was wrong, he goes Clintonian, explaining that the pledge only applied to certain specified plans — which he now says he meant all along. Alas, this is one case of death by punctuation. “Period” means without caveats, modifications, loopholes or escape hatches.

Having denied the obvious deception, the president proceeds to say that, well, anyway, you’ll be better off under the plan my health care experts have imposed on you.

But many of those getting notices will find this equally untrue: Their new plan is likely to carry a higher premium and a bigger deductible and cut them off from their current doctor.

Does Obama really think that recipients of those notices — millions of them — won’t notice that? Even the mainstream media have featured dozens of interviews of people tossed off plans they like — only to be offered expensive, less attractive Obama-mandated alternatives.

Obamacare proponents who live in the real world might admit that they intended to cancel people’s individual plans all along because kicking people off individual policies is at the heart of populating the health exchanges. You must cancel the good, less frilly plans because forcing these people into more expensive plans (that they don’t need) produces the inflated rates that subsidize the health care of others.

The more honest Obamacare advocates are in effect admitting that to make this omelet you have to break 8 million eggs — roughly the number of people with individual plans who are expected to lose them. Obama, however, goes on as if he can conjure omelets out of thin air.

This rather bizarre belief in the unlimited power of the speech arises from Obama’s biography. Isn’t that how he rose? Words. It’s not as if he built a company, an enterprise, an institution. He built one thing — his own persona. By persuasion. One great speech in 2004 propels him to the presidential level. More great speeches and he wins the White House.

But then comes governance. A speech in Cairo, utterly crushed by the Arab Spring. Talk of a Russian reset, repeatedly thrown back at him by a contemptuous Russian dictator. Fifty-four speeches to get health care enacted — only to see it now imperiled by the reality of its ruinous rollout and broken promises.

I’m not surprised that Obama tells untruths. He’s surely not the only politician to do so. I’m just surprised that he chooses to tell such obvious ones — ones that will inevitably be found out.

Who will tell Obama that lies so transparent render rhetoric not just useless but ridiculous?

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is [email protected].

Columnist Charles Krauthammer on ObamaCare rhetoric vs.

News, Politics

My name is Richard D. Baris, and I am the Creator/Editor and Senior Political Analyst of PeoplesPunditDaily.com.

After weeks of research and interviews, we released a PPD study the weekend after Halloween that concluded 145 million Americans will see their current health care plans cancelled. Thankfully, the study was widely circulated through social media and other websites, including a summary appearing on Tea Party Tribune.

Our site was viciously attacked, which shut the site down for over 24 hours. Sites are attacked online all of the time, it isn’t exactly unheard of in the age of information. Our security company suggested we bait them, which we did with a Tweet, because the first attack came immediately after sending Fox News’ Megyn Kelly the link to the study:

Again, the site was attacked and we were forced to shut it down to protect our data and servers. I know conservatives can be a bit overly skeptical at times, but when the site was again attacked immediately following the tweet, after being up for only a period of hours, it began to get a bit suspicious.

After again consulting with my hosting and security companies, it became painfully obvious the attacks were not random. In fact, not that I want to give them any credit, it was no ordinary attack. Furthermore, it is extremely rare for an attack of this magnitude, and even more rare for one site to experience such attacks back-to-back.

Why would they, whomever it may be, want to attack People’s Pundit Daily?

Because the media is ignoring or under covering the damage ObamaCare will have on Americans. “Mainstream” pundits and so-called “experts” are more concerned with their reputations than they are with giving Americans accurate data. For instance, employer-sponsored plans, which will not be subject to ObamaCare regulations until a full year after individuals, will be cancelled and transformed into something unrecognizable to Americans today.

People’s Pundit Daily, for the first time, was alerting Americans before two pivotal elections that the vast majority of them — roughly 145 million — will lose their health care plans.

President Obama repeatedly promised that, “if you like your health care plan, then you can keep your health care plan; if you like your doctor, then you can keep your doctor, period. End of story.” Though Obama has apologized, well sort of, the reality is that was never the case, and during the implementation of ObamaCare through the end of 2014, the number of Americans who will lose their current health care plan is far more than the media are reporting.

As if that alone is not despicable enough, during out research we discovered what blatantly appeared to be a systematic, methodical increase in the “Essential Health Benefit Standards” over time, until Health and Human Services ensured virtually all of our previous policies will be ineligible.

Another study by healthcare economist Christopher Conover at the Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research at Duke University, found that an estimated 129 million people could lose their previous health coverage due to a combination of factors, including the cancellations of existing plans. Megyn Kelly reported on the study, which prompted me to send her the article from People’s Pundit Daily on Twitter.

Whether the attack was perpetrated by hacker-proponents of ObamaCare, or the government itself, is irrelevant. This administration has a long, documented history of pulling the levers of government bureaucracy to silence or attack his opposition. We saw this tyranny manifest during Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups, the Stalin-like intrusion into reporters’ lives at the Associated Press, the naming of James Rosen as a potential co-conspirator in order to violate the Fourth Amendment, the unconstitutional surveillance of law-abiding citizens by the NSA, and so on.

Though the numbers keep climbing, the attacks on our site is validating to what we firmly believe, which is that other studies are lowballing the numbers and that our study is correct. Someone didn’t want that information out. Please help us share this study so it reaches as many Americans as possible. Together, we can force the media to tell Americans the truth, for once. But most important, we must send a message to the Left that they do not have a monopoly on information, and information cannot be censored when it reveals their fraudulent ideology for what it is.

Fellow-Americans, this law will hurt us, all of us. There will be no choice, no second opinions, no “affordable” health care for anyone. The government has not been honest with any of us about anything, thus they are not trustworthy to wield this amount of power with this amount of access to our privacy. I am not a prophet, but I am a pragmatist, and I am inclined to believe that ObamaCare is different from all of the prior issues the president has been able to game the people on.

Of course, they must have the information before they can be outraged by it. Please help us fight them back with knowledge, and share the study below with friends and family.

PPD Study: 145 Million Health Insurance Plans Will Be Cancelled

My name is Richard D. Baris, and

News, Politics

Obama apology for Obamacare lies

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

President Obama is apologizing for telling so many ObamaCare lies regarding Americans being able to keep their health insurance. But will it suffice?

I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me. We’ve got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and that we’re going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this,” Obama told Chuck Todd on NBC News.

Though the president is hoping this “sort-of” apology will keep him in the good graces of the American people, it cannot undo the damage or mitigate the facts. While he told Todd that they tried to keep that promise, the story doesn’t comport with the proven meeting that transpired at the White House in 2010, in which they made a political decision to lie about Americans being able to keep their health care.

Furthermore, as reported by our PPD study, Health and Human Services methodically increased Essential Health Benefit Standards with the specific intention of throwing people off of their private health insurance plans. As a result, over 140 million Americans will lose their health insurance and be dumped into the ObamaCare exchanges, generally paying a far higher cost for lower coverage.

Despite the apology, Denny Mueller, one American who just learned that he will be cancelled under ObamaCare, said “we don’t want ObamaCare.” Mueller, who gave an interview to Fox News said he was paying a little over $300 monthly for his health plan, but now will be forced to pay $530.80 for a Blue Care plan under ObamaCare.

He said, “I can’t afford that. I am 60-years old.” Senator Bill Nelson D-FL, offered to help Mueller find a policy and what he referred to as “correct information,” by referring him to a government website providing information regarding ObamaCare.

He faxed Senator Nelson the information he found on the site, as well as the quotes he received from the ObamaCare website, to which he received no response. “I don’t want to be dependent on the government,” he told Martha McCallum. Mr. Mueller cannot afford the new plan, so he will pay the fine rather be on “the government dole,” receiving substandard care.

When asked about whether or not he bought the president’s comments and apology, there was no question in his mind. “I don’t think the man’s ever told the truth. I don’t think he was ever telling the truth,” Mueller said.

This will not be the last story we will here, as 140 million Americans will receive the same or similar cancellations.

President Obama is apologizing for telling so

Opinion

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s presidency has become a feast of failures whose proliferation protects their author from close scrutiny of any one of them. Now, however, we can revisit one of the first and see it as a harbinger of progressivism’s downward stumble to HealthCare.gov.

“Cash for Clunkers” was born with Obama’s administration as a component of his stimulus. Its fate is a window into why the recovery has been extraordinarily weak, and into what happens when progressives’ clever plans collide with recalcitrant reality.

Consumers could trade in older vehicles and receive vouchers toward the purchase of a new, more fuel-efficient car. The vouchers were worth $3,500 or $4,500, depending on the difference in fuel economy between the trade-in and the new purchase. The program’s purposes were economic stimulation and environmental improvement.

Now a study by Ted Gayer and Emily Parker, published by the Brookings Institution, a mildly liberal think tank, concludes: “The $2.85 billion in vouchers provided by the program had a small and short-lived impact on gross domestic product, essentially shifting roughly a few billion dollars forward from the subsequent two quarters following the program.”

Most of the 677,842 sales were simply taken from the near future. That many older vehicles were traded in — and, as required by law, destroyed. Gayer and Parker accept as reasonable an estimate that the cost per job created by the program was $1.4 million. Although the vouchers did not come close to covering the cost of the new cars, voucher recipients seem not to have reduced their other consumption. This, say Gayer and Parker, suggests that participants in the program “were not liquidity constrained,” which is a delicate way of saying “there was no change in other consumption patterns,” which is a polite way of saying “cash for clunkers” merely caused people to purchase vehicles “slightly earlier than otherwise would have occurred.”

Because the program was not means tested, it had only a slight redistributional effect of the sort progressives favor: Voucher recipients had lower incomes than others who bought new cars in 2009. Against this, however, must be weighed the fact that the mandated destruction of so many used vehicles probably caused prices for such vehicles to be higher than they otherwise would have been, meaning a redistribution of wealth adverse to low-income consumers.

As for environmental benefits from Cash for Clunkers, the reduction of gasoline consumption was small and “the cost per ton of carbon dioxide reduced by [the program] far exceeds the estimated social cost of carbon.” But it was — herewith very faint praise — more cost effective than the subsidy for electric vehicles or the tax credit for ethanol.

Cash for Clunkers lasted 55 days and ended with confusion that was a preview of things to come. The New York Times (Aug. 1, 2009) explained the final surge of demand for clunker funds:

“Around the country, dealers had put off the laborious task of applying for the rebates … which requires entering the 17-character identification numbers of each vehicle to be scrapped, scanning images of proof of insurance and filling out other paperwork. The computer system was overloaded, according to the dealers. They said they would finish one page in the application, hit enter and nothing would happen. Eventually a message would appear notifying the dealer that the page had ‘timed out.’ Tom Frew, the business manager at Galpin Motors in Los Angeles, said that he needed 35 tries to register just one of the company’s 11 dealerships on the day that the program opened because of problems with the government website. On Friday, he spent an hour processing just one rebate application, he said.”

The recovery from the recession began in June 2009; 53 months later, vehicle sales still have not yet reached the pre-recession peak. Cash for Clunkers was prologue for the government’s vastly more ambitious plan to manage health care’s 18 percent of the economy.

The present, too, is prologue. There currently is heated debate about the Common Core, whose advocates say it merely involves national academic targets and metrics for primary and secondary education. Critics say it will inevitably lead to a centrally designed and nationally imposed curriculum — practice dictated by targets and metrics. Common Core advocates say, in effect: “If you like your local curriculum, you can keep it. Period.”

If you believe this, your credulity is impervious to evidence. And you probably are a progressive.

George Will’s email address is [email protected].

(c) 2013, Washington Post Writers Group

Barack Obama's presidency has become a feast

Culture, Entertainment

An epic display of Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood mocking ObamaCare website. We just hope that they are not hit with the race card because they decided to sing about the truth versus the White House narrative. It seems of lately when an individual goes against the narrative that the White House has tried to put in place, come under attack. Unfortunately we at People’s Pundit Daily know what that is like, we have been shutdown twice and yet we keep coming back for more. We hope to get the message across that we will not stand down, we hope you enjoy this uplifting but sadly true song.

An epic display of Brad Paisley and

News, Politics

The failed ObamaCare website was only capable of handling 1,100 users a day before it was launched, according to documents released by the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

The Obama administration has repeatedly insisted that the website’s repeated crashes were due to unexpectedly high traffic. U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said on Oct. 6 that the website was expected to see around 60,000 simultaneous users, but drew many more, around 250,000.

However, a Healthcare.gov testing bulletin from Sept. 30 — attached below — shows that the day before the site’s launch, states utilizing the site already began to run into trouble with only a handful of users.

“Currently we are able to reach 1,100 users before response time gets too high,” the bulletin states.

The bulletin states that the plan was to “conduct more thorough testing with (the Federally Facilitated Marketplace) to reach targets of up to 10,000 concurrent users in the next few days.”

The document’s release follows testimony by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Wednesday, in which she acknowledged that the early enrollment figures for ObamaCare scheduled to be released next week will be “very low” due to the website’s problems.

During her opening statement Sebelius said, “a number of fixes have already been completed” to the glitch-ridden website.

“Two weeks ago, the tech team put into place enhanced monitoring tools for HealthCare.gov, enabling us to get a high-level picture of the marketplace application responding, and to measure how changes improve user experience on the site,” she said.

During a speech at a synagogue in Dallas, TX, on Wednesday, President Obama said he was unhappy with the failures of the first month and encouraged volunteers and guides who are working to keep people interested, framing it as an effort that would, eventually, be well worth the trouble.

“As challenging as this may seem sometimes, as frustrating as healthcare.gov may be sometimes, we are going to get his done,” Obama said.

Later, at one of two fundraisers, he said: “It is fair to say that right now I’m not happy with some IT people in Washington.”

This is like having a really good product in a store, and the cash registers don’t work, and there aren’t enough parking spots,” Obama said.

“I know that sometimes this task is especially challenging here in the great Lone Star State,” Obama said to laughter. “But I think all of you understand that there’s no state that actually needs this more than Texas.”

Perry shot back, accusing Obama in a statement of trying to “salvage his ill-conceived and unpopular program from a Titanic fate.”

“Texans aren’t the reason Obamacare is crumbling,” Perry said. “Obamacare is the reason Obamacare is crumbling.”

Texas also is among the 36 states not providing their own insurance marketplaces, which means residents there must sign up through the federal website that stumbled badly upon its launch Oct. 1.

The failed ObamaCare website was only capable

Politics

Fox News projects Democrat Terry McAuliffe is the winner of the Virginia gubernatorial race, defeating Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli in a surprisingly close victory.

The closely watched raced pitted a Tea Party-backed Republican and an establishment Democrat locked in an expensive, surprisingly close election that the media projected early on would be a huge Democratic win.

Cuccinelli, trailing late by single digits, tried unsuccessfully to use voter dissatisfaction with ObamaCare to stage a come-from-behind victory over the better-funded McAuliffe, who was able to flood TV and radio airwaves with negative ads from practically start to finish.

Cuccinelli is the state attorney general who helped lead the legal charge against ObamaCare. McAuliffe is a Clinton family confidant and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Fox News projects Democrat Terry McAuliffe is

Live, Politics

New Jersey governor Chris Christie easily wins reelection over Democrat Barbara Buono, demonstrating broad bipartisan appeal that will definitely be his argument if he decides to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.

The margin is getting bigger, not smaller, as the votes get counted. Chris Christie cruised to victory in a state that President Barack Obama carried a year ago by more than 17 percentage points, which was his biggest margin in the nation, and 1 of only 2 states that Obama increased his margin.

Per New Jersey law, Christie is barred from seeking a third term, and he said after he voted Tuesday in Mendham, N.J., that it was the last time he’d be running for elected office in the state.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever have another chance to vote for myself,” he said. “I won’t ever run for another office in New Jersey, I can guarantee that. This is it for me.”

From the beginning, the race between Christie and Buono, a little-known state senator, seemed lopsided at best.

Buono and her husband voted Tuesday morning at a school gymnasium in her hometown.

The Democratic Governors Association, which is designated to help Democrats win governor’s races, spent less than $5,000 on the New Jersey contest. By contrast, they poured more than $6 million into the Virginia governor’s race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

Christie’s campaign spent $11.5 million on television and radio ads through Election Day, compared with Buono’s $2.1 million, according to SMG Delta, a Virginia-based firm that tracks political spending.

Christie’s popularity with New Jersey moderates grew following his handling of Superstorm Sandy. The hurricane slammed into his state, damaging 360,000 homes and businesses.  Christie publically praised President Obama’s handling of Sandy—something that didn’t endear him to some in his party.

Buono, 60, called out Christie for putting his personal ambitions ahead of the state. She also took him to task on gay marriage and his fiscal priorities, which includes his veto of legislation raising the minimum wage.

The Republican incumbent’s big win comes on the heels of a newly published book, “Double Down: Game Change 2012,” by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, that paints Christie as a train wreck of a candidate with diva-like demands and a penchant for being tardy to fundraisers.

Christie had been briefly considered as a running mate for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential bid. Ultimately, he was not chosen and the Romney camp decided to go with Sen. Paul Ryan instead.

Tuesday’s win for Christie sends a strong message to the Republican base about his likeability and relatability—something the GOP has lacked in the last two election cycles.

Republican Governor Chris Christie easily wins reelection

Live, Polls

The Virginia exit polls are showing a tight race, but Democrat Terry McAuliffe has a slight lead. Refresh your page every 30 seconds to get new totals.

VA Vote Totals

Precincts T. McAuliffe
(Dem)		 K. Cuccinelli
(GOP)		 R. Sarvis
(Lib)
Total 2384/2541 √988,347
47.3%		 961,946
46.0%		 139,799
6.6%

 

Virginia Exit Polls

Gender

Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II

Terry McAuliffe

Robert Sarvis
Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009
Male50%
47%
-15 pct. pts.
46%
+9 pct. pts.
6%
N.A.
Female50%
38%
-16 pct. pts.
54%
+8 pct. pts.
8%
N.A.
Race and Ethnicity Cuccinelli McAuliffe Sarvis
Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009
White =72%
54%
-13 pct. pts.
38%
+6 pct. pts.
8%
N.A.
Black =20%
6%
-3 pct. pts.
93%
+3 pct. pts.
1%
N.A.
Hispanic =4%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
Asian =1%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
Age Cuccinelli McAuliffe Sarvis
Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009
18-29 =12%
30%
-24 pct. pts.
50%
+6 pct. pts.
19%
N.A.
30-44 =23%
36%
-20 pct. pts.
59%
+15 pct. pts.
5%
N.A.
45-64 =45%
46%
-13 pct. pts.
48%
+7 pct. pts.
6%
N.A.
65+ =20%
50%
-10 pct. pts.
45%
+5 pct. pts.
4%
N.A.
Education Cuccinelli McAuliffe Sarvis
Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009
No H.S. diploma =1%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
High school grad =12%
48%
-16 pct. pts.
48%
+13 pct. pts.
3%
N.A.
Some college =23%
52%
-10 pct. pts.
40%
+3 pct. pts.
7%
N.A.
College =3%
43%
-18 pct. pts.
47%
+9 pct. pts.
9%
N.A.
Postgrad =30%
33%
-13 pct. pts.
59%
+6 pct. pts.
6%
N.A.
Religion Cuccinelli McAuliffe Sarvis
Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009
Protestant0%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
Jewish0%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
Catholic0%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
All other0%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
Party Cuccinelli McAuliffe Sarvis
Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009
Democrat =39%
2%
-5 pct. pts.
96%
+3 pct. pts.
2%
N.A.
Republican =30%
91%
-5 pct. pts.
3%
-1 pct. pts.
4%
N.A.
Independent =31%
47%
-19 pct. pts.
36%
+3 pct. pts.
16%
N.A.
Income Cuccinelli McAuliffe Sarvis
Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009
Under $50,000 =27%
36%
-14 pct. pts.
55%
+6 pct. pts.
9%
N.A.
$50,000-$99,999 =32%
49%
-11 pct. pts.
46%
+6 pct. pts.
5%
N.A.
$100,000 or more =41%
41%
-17 pct. pts.
50%
+8 pct. pts.
7%
N.A.
Ideology Cuccinelli McAuliffe Sarvis
Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009
Liberal =21%
3%
-6 pct. pts.
91%
0 pct. pts.
6%
N.A.
Moderate =44%
30%
-17 pct. pts.
58%
+5 pct. pts.
11%
N.A.
Conservative =35%
85%
-6 pct. pts.
12%
+3 pct. pts.
3%
N.A.
Are You Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual? Cuccinelli McAuliffe Sarvis
Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009
Yes 0%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
No 0%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
Sex, Race and Ethnicity Cuccinelli McAuliffe Sarvis
Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009
White men =37%
59%
-12 pct. pts.
33%
+5 pct. pts.
7%
N.A.
White women =36%
48%
-15 pct. pts.
43%
+7 pct. pts.
8%
N.A.
Black men =9%
8%
0 pct. pts.
91%
0 pct. pts.
1%
N.A.
Black women =11%
5%
-5 pct. pts.
95%
+5 pct. pts.
1%
N.A.
Hispanic men =2%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
Hispanic women =2%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
All other races =4%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
Does anyone in your household belong to a labor union? Cuccinelli McAuliffe Sarvis
Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009 Share of vote Change from 2009
Yes 0%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
No 0%
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.

The Virginia exit polls are showing a tight race, but Democrat Terry McAuliffe has a slight lead.

2009 Virginia Exit Polls For Comparison

Are you: McDonnell Deeds
Male (48%) 62% 37%
Female (52%) 54% 46%
Age, four categories McDonnell Deeds
18-29 (10%) 54% 44%
30-44 (24%) 56% 44%
45-64 (47%) 59% 41%
65+ (18%) 60% 40%
Age-65 McDonnell Deeds
18-24 (5%) 55% 45%
25-29 (6%) 54% 44%
30-39 (14%) 56% 44%
40-49 (22%) 62% 38%
50-64 (36%) 56% 43%
65 or over (18%) 60% 40%
Are you: McDonnell Deeds
White (78%) 67% 32%
Black (16%) 9% 90%
Hispanic/Latino (3%) – –
Asian (2%) – –
Other (1%) – –
Sex by race McDonnell Deeds
White men (38%) 71% 28%
White women (40%) 63% 36%
Black men (6%) 8% 91%
Black women (9%) 10% 90%
Latino men (2%) – –
Latino women (2%) – –
All other races (3%) – –
Age by race McDonnell Deeds
White 18-29 (7%) 65% 33%
White 30-44 (18%) 67% 33%
White 45-64 (37%) 68% 31%
White 65+ (15%) 67% 33%
Black 18-29 (2%) – –
Black 30-44 (4%) – –
Black 45-64 (7%) 8% 91%
Black 65+ (2%) – –
Latino 18-29 (1%) – –
Latino 30-44 (1%) – –
Latino 45-64 (2%) – –
Latino 65+ (0%) – –
All other (3%) – –
2008 total family income: McDonnell Deeds
Under $15,000 (5%) – –
$15,000 – $29,999 (10%) 45% 53%
$30,000 – $49,999 (17%) 53% 47%
$50,000 – $74,999 (21%) 64% 36%
$75,000 – $99,999 (15%) 54% 45%
$100,000 – $149,999 (16%) 61% 39%
$150,000 – $199,999 (8%) 53% 46%
$200,000 or more (8%) 55% 45%
Total family income: McDonnell Deeds
Less than $50,000 (31%) 50% 49%
$50,000 or more (69%) 59% 41%
Total family income: McDonnell Deeds
Less than $100,000 (68%) 55% 44%
$100,000 or more (32%) 58% 42%
Total family income: McDonnell Deeds
Under $50,000 (31%) 50% 49%
$50,000-$99,999 (36%) 60% 40%
$100,000 or more (32%) 58% 42%
What was the last grade of school you completed? McDonnell Deeds
Did not complete high school (3%) – –
High school graduate (17%) 64% 35%
Some college or associate degree (26%) 62% 37%
College graduate (28%) 61% 38%
Postgraduate study (26%) 46% 53%
What was the last grade of school you completed? McDonnell Deeds
More than high school grad (80%) 57% 43%
High school graduate or less (20%) 62% 38%
What was the last grade of school you completed? McDonnell Deeds
College graduate (54%) 54% 45%
No college degree (46%) 62% 37%
Education by race McDonnell Deeds
White college graduates (44%) 61% 39%
White non-college graduates (35%) 75% 24%
Non White college graduates (11%) 27% 72%
Non White non-college graduates (11%) 18% 81%
No matter how you voted today, do you usually think of yourself as a: McDonnell Deeds
Democrat (33%) 7% 93%
Republican (37%) 96% 4%
Independent or something else (30%) 66% 33%
Party by race McDonnell Deeds
White Democrats (19%) 9% 91%
White Independents (25%) 70% 29%
White Republicans (34%) 97% 3%
All other (22%) 23% 76%
On most political matters, do you consider yourself: McDonnell Deeds
Liberal (18%) 9% 91%
Moderate (42%) 47% 53%
Conservative (40%) 91% 9%
White Evangelical/Born-again Christians McDonnell Deeds
White Evangelical/Born-again Christians (34%) 83% 17%
All others (66%) 44% 55%
Do you work full-time for pay? McDonnell Deeds
Yes (64%) 57% 42%
No (36%) 58% 41%
Working women: McDonnell Deeds
Working women (28%) 51% 49%
All others (72%) 60% 40%
Did either of these candidates for governor attack the other unfairly? McDonnell Deeds
Only Deeds did (22%) 88% 12%
Only McDonnell did (8%) 20% 78%
Both did (43%) 48% 52%
Neither did (18%) 61% 39%
Did either of these candidates for governor attack the other unfairly? McDonnell Deeds
Deeds did (65%) 61% 38%
Deeds did not (26%) 48% 51%
Did either of these candidates for governor attack the other unfairly? McDonnell Deeds
McDonnell did (51%) 43% 56%
McDonnell did not (40%) 76% 24%
How worried are you about the direction of the nation’s economy in the next year? McDonnell Deeds
Very worried (53%) 77% 23%
Somewhat worried (32%) 41% 58%
Not too worried (10%) 23% 76%
Not at all worried (3%) – –
How worried are you about the direction of the nation’s economy in the next year? McDonnell Deeds
Worried (85%) 63% 36%
Not worried (14%) 23% 77%
In the 2008 election for president, did you vote for: McDonnell Deeds
Barack Obama (Dem) (43%) 12% 88%
John McCain (Rep) (51%) 95% 5%
Someone else (2%) – –
Did not vote (2%) – –
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president? McDonnell Deeds
Strongly approve (31%) 8% 92%
Somewhat approve (17%) 41% 58%
Somewhat disapprove (16%) 91% 9%
Strongly disapprove (35%) 96% 3%
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president? McDonnell Deeds
Approve (48%) 20% 80%
Disapprove (51%) 94% 5%
Was one reason for your vote for governor today: McDonnell Deeds
To express support for Barack Obama (17%) 6% 93%
To express opposition to Barack Obama (24%) 97% 3%
Barack Obama was not a factor (56%) 56% 43%
Which ONE issue mattered most in deciding how you voted for governor today? (CHECK ONLY ONE) McDonnell Deeds
Health care (24%) 49% 51%
Economy/Jobs (47%) 57% 42%
Transportation (7%) 38% 62%
Taxes (15%) 84% 16%
Population of area, five categories McDonnell Deeds
Over 500 thousand (<1%) – –
50 to 500 thousand (21%) 44% 56%
Suburbs (48%) 57% 43%
10 to 50 thousand (3%) – –
Rural (28%) 68% 31%
Population of area, three categories McDonnell Deeds
City over 50 thousand (21%) 44% 56%
Suburbs (48%) 57% 43%
Small city and Rural (31%) 69% 31%

The Virginia exit polls are showing a

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