The NewsTalkers Anonymous Exit Poll For The 2020 Presidential Election
Question 1
Voting has Ended
Which party did you choose for the Presidency?
Select
Option
Votes
Republican
18
Democratic
23
Libertarian
2
Green
0
Constitution
0
Other/Write In
1
I Didn't Vote
4
Question 2
Voting has Ended
For other offices, did you vote party line or split ticket?
Select
Option
Votes
Party Line
30
Split Ticket
14
I Didn't Vote
4
Question 3
Voting has Ended
If you voted in person on Election Day, how long was the wait at your polling location?
Select
Option
Votes
0-5 Minutes
8
5-15 Minutes
6
15-30 Minutes
3
30-45 Minutes
1
45-60 Minutes
0
More Than An Hour, But Less Than Two
1
More Than Two Hours
0
I Voted, But Not In Person On Election Day
29
I Didn't Vote
4
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I thought this might be fun.
Good Idea.
It is, thanks for posting this.
What's your altar ego Dig?
I like to know who I'm voting for . . .
What do you mean?
Aren't you a regular poster here on Newstalkers? What is your other screen name, I guess you would call it?
I'm only known as Tessylo.
Ah. I just shortened Dignitatem Societatis down to Dig. I was ready for a change, and it's what most people were already calling me anyway.
I like it. I thought it was you but wasn't sure
Hmm. Maybe I should make a viewable notice of that somewhere on my user page or something.
We know who you are. Your avatar didn't change
I just dropped off my ballot at my voting location.
I didn't see any lines.
VOTE BLUE
BIDEN/HARRIS!
Good job.
Should be fun to watch. Hopefully, some won't mess it up by fudging the votes.
I voted absentee ballot. straight party line ballot and a big FO to the anti-choice initiative assholes. volunteered to be a part of my state's ballot watch program due to USPS shenanigans by a white house rent-boy. my vote was accepted 2 weeks ago and is already counted.
I sent in my mail-in ballot about three weeks ago, and was notified by USPS that it had been received by the Country Registrar, and has been counted. I have voted this way for the last 15+ years.
You know Washington State has been voting by solely mail in votes for over 11 years now. NO PROBLEMS.
In Colorado, I believe, the last two out of three votes, mail in votes, were majority republican.
I have never had any problem with my mail-in ballots. Never had one lost. All have been counted. However, I send my ballot back the next day after I get it. I already know who and what I am voting for or against, so it only takes me a few minutes to complete my ballot and have it ready to send back the next day. So I see no reason not to do the same this time.
IIRC, Trump himself votes via a mail in ballot! (I believe he may have changed that this time because it was better optics).
IIRC, he's a registered voter in NY-- but since he spends almost all his time either at Mar-a-Lago (in Florida) or in Washington, he vhas to vote by mail-in ballot to the state he's registered in-- NY!
Prediction based on empirical evidence from this place.
75% Biden
20% Trump
5% Other
+/- 5% accuracy range
Well, it seems that our Republicans are not voting.
Turnout is everything.
Perhaps not but this conservative is, as i am not tied to either party.
I stand by my prediction if everyone votes.
LOL. sure did!
Are you talking about the NT vote or the actual vote?
NT vote.
Actual vote will be vastly different from NTers.
You want to see different? Look at these two article headlines with the same story.
Note the difference. One includes the full statement. The other, a dog whistle for liberal "readers". And you wonder why the country is basically torn in half? Wonder no more good people.
The second link is a very good example of clickbait.
gee, if they were going to be seeded here, which one would be the one selected?
Come on guys, the same thing could be said about Fox, or Townhall, or The Federalist. I'm not even going to give examples, cause we all know it's true.
The problem is that the rhetoric has gotten way out of hand. Pick your poison, pick your click bait.
It is like wading through the muck to find any truth.
Imo NPR is one of the better ones. Aljazeera is actually pretty good.
Most of it may be a fact presented with opinion.
It is hard to find a place with...
I tend to read The Hill and British papers, especially The Sunday Times (English paper). They are more dispassionate and so more likely to give you the facts.
C'mon Perrie!
The mass media, meaning the bulk of the media out there in space and and all their surrogates, clearly leans heavily left. I'm talking ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, etc. Fox is the only more conservative outlet close to the same size and reporting scope to those. Townhall and the Federalist are like HS newspapers by comparison.
Don't expect you to agree, i know you see it differently and that is still very hard for me to believe for a person who claims to be independent.
They are too busy nursing their wounds.
Yes, there is clearly a lot of support for the Giant Douche. You have to be brave to vote for the Turd Sandwich and admit it.
Lol .... i love South Park .... they seem to always get it.
Simpson's did it
Can I vote for a 3rd party? Prof. Chaos for Prez! Lol
I have to qualify my vote on the last question. Some of my local races were unopposed and were republicans. There was no opportunity for write-ins and the way the machine was designed it seemed to me that one had to vote for the unopposed candidate or you would never get out of there. Meaning, your whole ballot was scrapped because you refused to vote for the republican.
I think there was a way to bypass all of that so I didn't have to vote for the repub but it wasn't clearly marked. Have I mentioned I live in a red town, red County, red State, and our Sec of State is a Repub?
That kinda sucks. Mine is always a paper ballot, and I can just leave unopposed offices blank if I don't support the only option.
Quick question for you. You said you're referring to the last question. Are the polls not showing up as question 1, 2, and 3, with 3 being the last one (and about wait times)? I'm just curious if the page is loading the same for everyone.
My apologies...the last question I see on my page is the one about wait times. I should have said Question 2 in my comment.
Great. No biggie. I was just wondering.
I elect not to vote.
Well crap. That deletes your opportunity to bitch. Are you sure?
Yes, I'm quite sure. Moreover, I had no opportunity to complain because judges [D and R] in multiple states refused our candidates ballot access.
I'm almost afraid to ask, but I will. Which party?
Dear cjcold:
I don't have claws, fangs, bat-wings or green blood. I don't feed on others' blood. And while I own a telescope and enjoy surveying space, I don't even come from there.
I've said this to point out that you can ask me safely whatever you want.
I support the Socialist Equality Party.
Translation: Your party candidate couldn't get enough signatures to be on the ballot.
I do wish that this country would allow for a third party. But it's either Democrat or Republican
And they usually nominate people I would prefer NOT to vote for. I hate the 2 party system.
A third party is a waste of time imo unless we first do away with the two party system, the RNC and the DNC.
A non partisan primary to reduce the field and then a top few vote getters run in the main election on their own merits. Not merits that are spoon feed to them by a party.
Top voter in each state could carry that states electoral college. It could work but not until we trash the existing system.
My vote for Perot in 92 taught me that.
Me. too
This is how I vote up a comment more than once:
It's only a waste of time if you're satisfied with the status quo
Thanks.
Nah, i gave you my reason for why its a waste of time.
Clinton won in 92 with the lowest percentage of the popular vote in 80 years and since. And it's not even close. The third party candidate, Perot, made that happen when he got nearly 20% of the popular vote. The most for a third party candidate in 80 years as well. See how that timeline lines up?
He never had a chance to beat Clinton or Bush given our current system. Had i known that then, i wouldn't have wasted my vote on him. Which is exactly what i did. Waste my vote in 92.
I would not mind that at all. I would also like to see the end of negative campaigning. I think the candidates should campaign on their qualifications, not get down in the mud with their opponents. It has gotten to be ridiculous.
I agree but i'm afraid that horse left the barn long ago and that is damn sad.
Absolutely agree.
The country DOES allow for a third party. The voters have chosen not to have one.
Ok....I guess I meant how do we release the stranglehold the 2 parties have on the system?
I had 4 choices and a write in to choose from on the ballot here , the usual GOP or dem , a libertarian candidate , and a Independent candidate , not sure why the green party wasnt on there .
thing is unless tit is one of the big 2 , likelyhood is most would say any of the last 3 are non starters . here that depends on how one looks at it and what they want to achieve.
Wyo has not gone to the Dem candidate i am told for the last 11 or 13 presidential election cycles so a vote for the dem is usually considered a wasted vote , just like a 3rd party vote , thing is it doesnt accomplish anything , the 2 parties still split the fed funds for elections and 3rd party gets nothing .
way i look at it if im going to waste a vote per others views lets try and do something with it , like get the needed percentages to get that 3rd party matching fed election funds . and since i know ahead of time usually how the state will vote , even if my vote doesnt matter , i can try and make it actually do something .
I think any 'new' party would merely be a conglomerate of the old ones. The other parties that have made a run have been, while going far to the left or right on some issue or another. I haven't read one third party platform that was cogent.
I'm gonna start my own political party...The Fishing Party.
Just watch out for it breaking off into factions.
The catch and release versus the fry em' up.
This would make a good article
Give me some oil/breading & let me fry those guppies....
I see which side you're on....
I'll give you my reason why your statement was a waste of time.
It's total bullshit.
Others were elected with LOWER percentages of the popular vote and in the last 80 years Trump, both Bushs, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter and Obama ALL won with LOWER percentages than Clinton's.
Guess you'll have to rethink you timeline since it decidedly does NOT line up...
do you feel at all constrained by reality?
Every single President you named won with a higher percentage than Clinton. This should be common knowledge. Sad you don't know it.
Yes.
Prove it Sean.
Lol .... wrong and it's hilarious that some here seem to never tire of being so obtuse. Apparently in an attempt to push an agenda i guess?
That said:
I'll be happy for you to try and prove me wrong but you can't. Because once again you would be, 100% and completely wrong to do so.
SOSDD and ...... yawn ........
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Prove it Sean
Why, for once, don't you try and prove your fake reality?
Any adult who knows the slightest bit about American history knows I am correct. If you need a refresher, google is your friend.
Oh my bad, I was looking at the percentage of the Margin of the votes.
Acknowledging that I am not Sean, I’ll prove it. Happy to.
Fascinating inquiry.
1992: Clinton received 43.0% of the popular vote. And won.
As Sean indicated, you have to go back exactly 80 years from that election to find a lower winning percentage.
1912 : Woodrow Wilson received 41.8% of the popular vote.
Other winners since 1912 with their percentage of the popular vote . . .
1916: Woodrow Wilson, 49.2%. 1920: Warren G. Harding, 60.3%. 1924: Calvin Coolidge, 54%. 1928: Herbert Hoover, 58.2%. 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 57.4%. 1936: FDR, 60.8%. 1940: FDR, 54.7%. 1944: FDR: 53.4%. 1948: Harry Truman, 49.6%. 1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 55.2%. 1956: Ike again, 57.4%. 1960: John F. Kennedy, 49.72%. 1964: Lyndon Johnson, 61.1%. 1968: Richard Nixon (the closest one to Clinton), 43.4%. 1972: Richard Nixon, 60.7%. 1976: Jimmy Carter, 50.1%. 1980: Ronald Reagan, 50.7%. 1984: Ronald Reagan, 58.8%. 1988: George H.W. Bush, 53.4%.
After 1992:
1996: Clinton, 49.2%. 2000: George W. Bush, 47.9%. 2004: George W. Bush, 50.7%. 2008: Barack Obama, 52.9%. 2012: Barack Obama, 51.1%. 2016: Donald Trump, 46.1%.
It’s kind of amazing how many presidents have been elected with less than 50% of the popular vote. I count 8 in the last 108 years. I think a lot of people assume that the president does - or should always - receive more than 50% of the vote, but clearly pluralities in the popular vote are a lot more common than people think.
No problem, everyone makes mistakes.
Kudos for not trying to defend a flawed position
I read somewhere that it could cause a vote split.
Then you forfeit your right to complain about Democrats/Liberals/Progressives. Also you forfeit your right to complain about President Joe Biden.
How do you get that? I pay taxes, improve my properties, invest my savings, keep our laws, and agreed if needed to serve as an elector. It that -- to say naught of its supposed entrenchment in the constitution -- does not assure the right of free speech, I have to conclude that said 'right' must be regarded as a political payoff for supporting the party.
You on the other hand asked for and agreed to accept a master. If anyone has relinquished grounds for griping, I would think it was those who got exactly what they demanded.
Actually I tend to vote for a head administrator who I think would work well for me.
Your head administrator will indeed work for you -- IF you belong to the social class which said administrator represents.
I voted early in person at my local county registrar's office. There was no line - I walked right in. One person came in behind me as I was feeding my ballot into the machine.
TRUMP JUST CONCEDED that he is a moron.
It's not like we didn't know that already.
I voted twice in person and six times absentee, all for Donald Trump.
lol
Vote early! Vote often!
For all the import elections have, it doesn't matter to me.
PS: If you hear how many times Trump votes, do tell us!
Navajo ''Ridin' to the Polls'' in Kayenta AZ.
We gotta git to the polls before they close.
Now that's horse racing. No boots, no saddles, no helmets...
It's Indian Relay Racing and this is the easiest part of the race.
There's different parts of the race? Did you post this before?
I posted a video of an Indian Relay Race before. It's three one mile laps and you change horses after each lap and that is really where the most danger lies.
What movie?
Are you talking about ''More Than Frybread'' with Tatanka Means?
I can see why. Change to a different horse with a different attitude
It was hilarious. A spoof on the best frybread in AZ with all the tribes competing. It shows how important frybread is to each of the tribes. The mythical title of the ''Best Frybread''....
Noomokis (grandmother) guard their receipts for frybread with their lives.
BTW, it's a good thing that the Ojibwe we're in the contest cuz we make the very best fry bread in the US.
Is that picture from the Cheyenne Suicide Race? I wanted to enter once (the chuck wagon race) but my mother thew an absolute fit.
There is an advertising plane flying over Philadelphia today , trailing a banner that reads, "Trump Loves Jerry Jones And The Dallas Cowboys"
LOLOL
ohhhhh.......shhhhhiiiittttt........
they should go to Pittsburgh and do the same thing
'A real inspiration’: Oldest living Marine casts ballot in Kannapolis, shares voting memories at 107 years old
Awww...and I dig her handsome escorts
Thanks for providing this opportunity that even allowed me to take part, so I could vote "I didn't vote" for an obvious reason.
Voted this morning at 7:50 a.m. In and out in 5 minutes.
Actually had to go the office today. I now have to go once a week.
Felt weird going there since the last time I was there was March 19th.
Was at work at 6, left work at 4. Hubs and I went to our polling place around 5, in and out 15 minutes! Took an extra few to read, and reread some of the amendments here for Ga because they word it so confusing! Glad we read up on them beforehand!
10% responded that they didn't vote. Interesting.
Unless there is a shitload of conservative lurkers here that voted, which is doubtful, there is no way almost as many here voted republican as voted democrat.
No way .....
NT polls tally unique votes from NT members (and only NT members). Whatever numbers appear here are a result of individual logged in NT members casting a vote. The poll is a function provided by the NT platform (jamroom).
Which changes nothing about my comment. Nothing at all.
So what are you alleging ... that people are lying in this poll, that the poll is rigged, some other bizarre conspiracy theory?
It is a fucking poll for our own entertainment. The results are simply used to satisfy curiousity.
Again, my comment stands on its own merit.
Not sure why you seem to be getting so upset over a simple observation made on a discussion board. Some latent hostility perhaps?
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You make a claim with no substantiating reasons and now refuse to even be clear.
Again, I made a very clear comment based on my observation of this site. Not my problem if you are having trouble with it.
To reiterate, unless there is a bunch on conservative lurkers here who voted rep, it is extremely doubtful the ratio of rep to dem is accurate. That is my opinion based on observation of NT.
I could really care less if you agree with that or not and/or chose to not embrace the clarity offered within.
That might actually be the case. I think conservatives generally don’t look to be as public about their politics as liberals do. We have seen this for a long time. The term “silent majority” goes back a long ways. Given the hostility and violence of modern politics, more people than ever appear to be reticent to state their preferences publicly just to protect themselves from harassment.
I am painting in extremely broad strokes here, of course, and basing this on my own observations. In recent years, we have seen polls dramatically under predict conservative voting, and you might be seeing the same phenomenon at play with this poll.
I agree which is why i offered that up as a possibility from the start.
But if you go by those who post here regularly ....... now way its that close imo.