Exit polls are rough checks on actulal results

[DemocratSinceBirth]

And in the current instance the latter match the former. What are we to infer from that?

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. You can infer, or deduce, a number of things

1) when most of the population doesn’t get their news from traditional sources, propaganda works very effectively.
2) in some swing states, many people only voted for president, and left the rest of the down ballot races blank, allowing Dems to win those races even when Trump won the state.
3) the media failed miserably at conveying accurate information about the state of the economy to those who were paying attention, to counter the massive amounts of propaganda.
4) misogyny, racism, and ignorance are alive and kicking in the USA.

[dsc]

2. NC was one of the state where Trump won but Democrats won a significant number of down ballot races

In all cases, there were circumstances that led that to occur. Gov had a disaster as a GOP candidate. Lt Gov had a Democrat with a golden name and an extreme candidate on the GOP side, AG had an extreme GOP candidate and a stellar Democratic one (as a Congressman he had a national following), Sec of State had an institution on our side (she has been in office since the 1990s) and Sup of public instruction had a nutbag on the GOP side.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. And a significant number of NC voters only voted for president

And left the rest of the ballot blank.

[dsc]

6. I am not sure that is true

In NC 5,566,921 people voted for either Trump or Harris and 5,267,916 people voted for either Stein or Robinson which looks pretty large until you account for 3rd party voting. Presidential 3rd party was around 83k while for gov 3rd party was around 275k with the libertarian taking 175k of that. So that nearly 300k difference is around 100k. While that is a decent number, we are a military state meaning we might have a decent number of people who don't feel competent to vote in local elections but want to vote in national ones. Stein out polled Trump by well over 100k votes.

All figures derived from here.
https://er.ncsbe.gov/?election_dt=11/05/2024&county_id=0&office=COS&contest=0

[Dem4life1234]

4. Yeah smells fishy there

[jimfields33]

5. I believe in our country, you can vote anyway you want. I guess some wanted to vote the top of the ticket.

I think it’s foolish but it’s their right. In some ways it helped in our other races. I’d rather they did this, rather then voting straight R.