Midterm Exit Poll Findings are Telling
With the largest shift in party control in the House of Representatives in over 50 years, it is possible to see where the Democrats lost support in a number of significant demographic areas. Midterm election exit polls showed that a majority of women voted Republican for the first time since polling began in the 1982. In 2008, Democrats won the female vote by 14 points.

November 15, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- With the largest shift in party control in the House of Representatives in over 50 years, it is possible to see where the Democrats lost support in a number of significant demographic areas. Midterm election exit polls showed that a majority of women voted Republican for the first time since polling began in the 1982. In 2008, Democrats won the female vote by 14 points.

Another large shift towards the GOP were independent voters. Though independents were a deciding factor in the Democratic sweep of the White House in Congress in 2008, they sharply shifted their vote to the Republicans this cycle.

The one bright spot for the Democrats was the voters under 30, who supported the President's party but only made up 11% of the electorate this cycle. Overall election turnout was around 42%, or about the midterm average.

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