2012 National Exit Polls
Sample: 26565 respondents .
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2008-exit-poll


Are you:	Total	Obama	Romney
Male	47%	45%	52%
Female	53%	55%	44%
Sample: 26517 respondents .
In which age group are you?	Total	Obama	Romney
18-29	19%	60%	37%
30-44	27%	52%	45%
45-64	38%	47%	51%
65 or over	16%	44%	56%
Sample: 26413 respondents .
In which age group are you?	Total	Obama	Romney
18-24	11%	60%	36%
25-29	8%	60%	38%
30-39	17%	55%	42%
40-49	20%	48%	50%
50-64	28%	47%	52%
65 or over	16%	44%	56%
Sample: 26413 respondents .
Are you:	Total	Obama	Romney
White	72%	39%	59%
Black	13%	93%	6%
Hispanic/Latino	10%	71%	27%
Asian	3%	73%	26%
Other	2%	58%	38%
Sample: 26200 respondents .
Age by race	Total	Obama	Romney
White 18-29	11%	44%	51%
White 30-44	18%	38%	59%
White 45-64	29%	38%	61%
White 65+	14%	39%	61%
Black 18-29	3%	91%	8%
Black 30-44	4%	94%	5%
Black 45-64	4%	93%	7%
Black 65+	1%	93%	6%
Latino 18-29	4%	74%	23%
Latino 30-44	3%	71%	28%
Latino 45-64	3%	68%	31%
Latino 65+	1%	65%	35%
All other	5%	67%	31%
Sample: 26091 respondents .
Sex by race	Total	Obama	Romney
White men	34%	35%	62%
White women	38%	42%	56%
Black men	5%	87%	11%
Black women	8%	96%	3%
Latino men	5%	65%	33%
Latino women	6%	76%	23%
All other races	5%	66%	31%
Sample: 26160 respondents .
On most political matters, do you consider yourself:	Total	Obama	Romney
Liberal	25%	86%	11%
Moderate	41%	56%	41%
Conservative	35%	17%	82%
Sample: 24910 respondents .
No matter how you voted today, do you usually think of yourself as a:	Total	Obama	Romney
Democrat	38%	92%	7%
Republican	32%	6%	93%
Independent or something else	29%	45%	50%
Sample: 25518 respondents .
What was the last grade of school you completed?	Total	Obama	Romney
No high school diploma	3%	64%	35%
High school graduate	21%	51%	48%
Some college/assoc. degree	29%	49%	48%
College graduate	29%	47%	51%
Postgraduate study	18%	55%	42%
Sample: 25466 respondents .
What was the last grade of school you completed?	Total	Obama	Romney
College graduate	47%	50%	48%
No college degree	53%	51%	47%
Sample: 25466 respondents .
What was the last grade of school you completed?	Total	Obama	Romney
More than high school graduate	76%	50%	48%
High school graduate or less	24%	52%	46%
Sample: 25466 respondents .
2011 total family income:	Total	Obama	Romney
Under $30,000	20%	63%	35%
$30,000 - $49,999	21%	57%	42%
$50,000 - $99,999	31%	46%	52%
$100,000 - $199,999	21%	44%	54%
$200,000 - $249,999	3%	47%	52%
$250,000 or more	4%	42%	55%
Sample: 24157 respondents .
2011 total family income:	Total	Obama	Romney
Under $50,000	41%	60%	38%
$50,000-$99,999	31%	46%	52%
$100,000 or more	28%	44%	54%
Sample: 24157 respondents .
2011 total family income:	Total	Obama	Romney
Under $50,000	41%	60%	38%
$50,000 or more	59%	45%	53%
Sample: 24157 respondents .
2011 total family income:	Total	Obama	Romney
Under $100,000	72%	54%	44%
$100,000 or more	28%	44%	54%
Sample: 24157 respondents .
How often do you attend religious services?	Total	Obama	Romney
More than once a week	14%	36%	63%
Once a week	28%	41%	58%
A few times a month	13%	55%	44%
A few times a year	27%	56%	42%
Never	17%	62%	34%
Sample: 5131 respondents .
How often do you attend religious services?	Total	Obama	Romney
Weekly	42%	39%	59%
Occasionally	40%	55%	43%
Never	17%	62%	34%
Sample: 5131 respondents .
Are you:	Total	Obama	Romney
Protestant	29%	37%	62%
Catholic	25%	50%	48%
Mormon	2%	21%	78%
Other Christian	23%	50%	49%
Jewish	2%	69%	30%
Muslim	1%	-	-
Other	7%	73%	24%
None	12%	70%	26%
Sample: 9753 respondents .
Religion, combined Protestant and other Christian	Total	Obama	Romney
Protestant or other Christian	53%	42%	57%
Catholic	25%	50%	48%
Jewish	2%	69%	30%
Something else	7%	74%	23%
None	12%	70%	26%
Sample: 9753 respondents .
Religion among whites	Total	Obama	Romney
White Protestant/Other Christian	39%	30%	69%
White Catholic	18%	40%	59%
White Jewish	2%	71%	29%
White something else	4%	61%	35%
White none	9%	63%	31%
Non-white	28%	80%	18%
Sample: 9731 respondents .
Church attendance by Religion	Total	Obama	Romney
Protestant/Attend weekly	15%	29%	70%
Protestant/Do not attend weekly	14%	44%	55%
Catholic/Attend weekly	11%	42%	57%
Catholic/Do not attend weekly	13%	56%	42%
All Others	46%	58%	39%
Sample: 5131 respondents .
White evangelical or white born-again Christians	Total	Obama	Romney
White evangelical or white born-again Christian	26%	21%	78%
All others	74%	60%	37%
Sample: 5114 respondents .
Which comes closest to your position? Abortion should be:	Total	Obama	Romney
Legal in all cases	29%	76%	22%
Legal in most cases	30%	58%	40%
Illegal in most cases	23%	22%	76%
Illegal in all cases	13%	19%	79%
Sample: 5131 respondents .
Which comes closest to your position? Abortion should be:	Total	Obama	Romney
Legal	59%	67%	31%
Illegal	36%	21%	77%
Sample: 5131 respondents .
How do you feel about the Tea Party movement?	Total	Obama	Romney
Support	21%	11%	87%
Neutral	42%	42%	57%
Oppose	30%	89%	9%
Sample: 5131 respondents .
Which ONE of these four issues is the most important facing the country? (CHECK ONLY ONE)	Total	Obama	Romney
Foreign policy	5%	56%	33%
Federal budget deficit	15%	32%	66%
The economy	59%	47%	51%
Health care	18%	75%	24%
Sample: 10798 respondents .
Which ONE of these four candidate qualities mattered most in deciding how you voted for president? (CHECK ONLY ONE)	Total	Obama	Romney
Shares my values	27%	42%	55%
Is a strong leader	18%	38%	61%
Cares about people like me	21%	81%	18%
Has a vision for the future	29%	45%	54%
Sample: 10798 respondents .
Which ONE of these four is the biggest economic problem facing people like you? (CHECK ONLY ONE)	Total	Obama	Romney
The housing market	8%	63%	32%
Unemployment	38%	54%	44%
Taxes	14%	32%	66%
Rising prices	37%	49%	49%
Sample: 5359 respondents .
What should happen to the 2010 health care law?	Total	Obama	Romney
Expand it	26%	92%	5%
Leave it as is	18%	80%	19%
Repeal some of it	24%	27%	72%
Repeal all of it	25%	3%	93%
Sample: 5043 respondents .
What should happen to the 2010 health care law?	Total	Obama	Romney
Expand it or leave it as is	44%	87%	11%
Repeal some of it or repeal all of it	49%	15%	83%
Sample: 5043 respondents .
Should income tax rates:	Total	Obama	Romney
Increase for all	13%	52%	44%
Increase only on income over $250,000	47%	70%	29%
Not increase for anyone	35%	23%	75%
Sample: 5179 respondents .
Should most illegal immigrants working in the United States be:	Total	Obama	Romney
Offered a chance to apply for legal status	65%	61%	37%
Deported to the country they came from	28%	24%	73%
Sample: 5131 respondents .
Who is more in touch with people like you?	Total	Obama	Romney
Barack Obama	53%	91%	7%
Mitt Romney	43%	1%	98%
Sample: 5043 respondents .
Who would better handle the economy?	Total	Obama	Romney
Barack Obama	48%	98%	1%
Mitt Romney	49%	4%	94%
Sample: 5043 respondents .
Who would better handle Medicare?	Total	Obama	Romney
Barack Obama	52%	92%	6%
Mitt Romney	44%	2%	96%
Sample: 5043 respondents .
Who would better handle the federal budget deficit?	Total	Obama	Romney
Barack Obama	47%	98%	1%
Mitt Romney	49%	3%	95%
Sample: 5179 respondents .
Which is closer to your view:	Total	Obama	Romney
Government should do more to solve problems	43%	81%	17%
Government is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals	51%	24%	74%
Sample: 5439 respondents .
Do you think the condition of the nation's economy is:	Total	Obama	Romney
Excellent	2%	-	-
Good	21%	90%	9%
Not so good	45%	55%	42%
Poor	31%	12%	85%
Sample: 5359 respondents .
Do you think the condition of the nation's economy is:	Total	Obama	Romney
Excellent or good	23%	90%	9%
Not so good or poor	77%	38%	60%
Sample: 5359 respondents .
Is the U.S. economy:	Total	Obama	Romney
Getting better	39%	88%	9%
Getting worse	30%	9%	90%
Staying about the same	29%	40%	57%
Sample: 5359 respondents .
Economic Conditions Are...	Total	Obama	Romney
Getting better	39%	88%	9%
Good and staying the same	4%	71%	27%
Poor and staying the same	25%	35%	62%
Getting worse	30%	9%	90%
Sample: 5359 respondents .
Compared to four years ago, is your family's financial situation:	Total	Obama	Romney
Better today	25%	84%	15%
Worse today	33%	18%	80%
About the same	41%	58%	40%
Sample: 5439 respondents .
Do you think things in this country today are:	Total	Obama	Romney
Generally going in the right direction	46%	93%	6%
Seriously off on the wrong track	52%	13%	84%
Sample: 4869 respondents .
Who is more to blame for current economic problems?	Total	Obama	Romney
Barack Obama	38%	5%	94%
George W. Bush	53%	85%	12%
Sample: 5359 respondents .
Do you think the U.S. economic system generally:	Total	Obama	Romney
Favors the wealthy	55%	71%	26%
Is fair to most Americans	39%	22%	77%
Sample: 5043 respondents .
Should taxes be raised to help cut the budget deficit?	Total	Obama	Romney
Yes	33%	73%	24%
No	63%	37%	61%
Sample: 5359 respondents .
Which comes closest to your feelings about the Obama administration:	Total	Obama	Romney
Enthusiastic	25%	98%	2%
Satisfied, but not enthusiastic	24%	87%	11%
Dissatisfied, but not angry	30%	9%	86%
Angry	19%	1%	97%
Sample: 5510 respondents .
Which comes closest to your feelings about the Obama administration:	Total	Obama	Romney
Positive	49%	93%	6%
Negative	49%	6%	91%
Sample: 5510 respondents .
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president?	Total	Obama	Romney
Strongly approve	29%	97%	2%
Somewhat approve	24%	80%	18%
Somewhat disapprove	13%	9%	88%
Strongly disapprove	33%	1%	96%
Sample: 5043 respondents .
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president?	Total	Obama	Romney
Approve	54%	89%	9%
Disapprove	45%	3%	94%
Sample: 5043 respondents .
Is your opinion of Barack Obama:	Total	Obama	Romney
Favorable	53%	93%	6%
Unfavorable	46%	3%	94%
Sample: 4869 respondents .
Is your opinion of Mitt Romney:	Total	Obama	Romney
Favorable	47%	6%	93%
Unfavorable	50%	92%	5%
Sample: 4869 respondents .
Do Barack Obama’s policies generally favor:	Total	Obama	Romney
The rich	10%	9%	89%
The middle class	44%	86%	12%
The poor	31%	25%	74%
Sample: 4869 respondents .
Would Mitt Romney’s policies generally favor:	Total	Obama	Romney
The rich	53%	87%	10%
The middle class	34%	6%	93%
The poor	2%	-	-
Sample: 4869 respondents .
Do you trust Barack Obama to handle an international crisis?	Total	Obama	Romney
Yes	57%	85%	13%
No	42%	2%	96%
Sample: 5043 respondents .
Do you trust Mitt Romney to handle an international crisis?	Total	Obama	Romney
Yes	50%	13%	86%
No	46%	90%	7%
Sample: 5043 respondents .
Do you trust _____ to handle an international crisis?	Total	Obama	Romney
Only Barack Obama	42%	97%	1%
Only Mitt Romney	36%	1%	98%
Both of them	13%	46%	51%
Neither of them	4%	13%	72%
Sample: 5043 respondents .
Which best describes your vote for president today?	Total	Obama	Romney
I strongly favor my candidate	65%	54%	45%
I like my candidate but with reservations	23%	42%	57%
I dislike the other candidates	10%	41%	51%
Sample: 5273 respondents .
When did you finally decide for whom to vote in the presidential election?	Total	Obama	Romney
Just today	3%	51%	44%
In the last few days	6%	50%	45%
In October	11%	49%	48%
In September	9%	45%	53%
Before that	69%	53%	46%
Sample: 5439 respondents .
When did you finally decide for whom to vote in the presidential election?	Total	Obama	Romney
Just today or in the last few days	9%	50%	44%
In October or in September or before that	89%	51%	47%
Sample: 5439 respondents .
When did you finally decide for whom to vote in the presidential election?	Total	Obama	Romney
Just today or in the last few days or in October	21%	50%	46%
Before that	78%	52%	47%
Sample: 5439 respondents .
Are you currently married?	Total	Obama	Romney
Yes	60%	42%	56%
No	40%	62%	35%
Sample: 20714 respondents .
Gender by marital status	Total	Obama	Romney
Married men	29%	38%	60%
Married women	31%	46%	53%
Non-married men	18%	56%	40%
Non-married women	23%	67%	31%
Sample: 20681 respondents .
Do you have any children under 18 living in your home?	Total	Obama	Romney
Yes	36%	51%	47%
No	64%	50%	47%
Sample: 15079 respondents .
Married with children:	Total	Obama	Romney
Married with children	27%	45%	54%
All others	73%	53%	45%
Sample: 15106 respondents .
Parents	Total	Obama	Romney
Men with children	16%	45%	53%
Women with children	20%	56%	43%
Men without children	30%	47%	50%
Women without children	34%	54%	45%
Sample: 15053 respondents .
Does anyone in your household belong to a labor union?	Total	Obama	Romney
Yes	18%	58%	40%
No	82%	49%	48%
Sample: 4798 respondents .
Do you work full-time for pay?	Total	Obama	Romney
Yes	60%	49%	49%
No	40%	53%	45%
Sample: 4923 respondents .
Should your state legally recognize same-sex marriage?	Total	Obama	Romney
Yes	49%	73%	25%
No	46%	25%	74%
Sample: 5273 respondents .
Are you gay, lesbian or bisexual?	Total	Obama	Romney
Yes	5%	76%	22%
No	95%	49%	49%
Sample: 9319 respondents .
In your vote for president, how would you rate the importance of Obama's hurricane response?	Total	Obama	Romney
The most important factor	15%	73%	26%
An important factor	27%	65%	33%
A minor factor	22%	51%	46%
Not a factor at all	31%	28%	70%
Sample: 4745 respondents .
In your vote for president, how would you rate the importance of Obama's hurricane response?	Total	Obama	Romney
Important	42%	68%	31%
Not important	54%	37%	60%
Sample: 4745 respondents .
In your vote for president, how would you rate the importance of Obama's hurricane response?	Total	Obama	Romney
Factor	64%	62%	36%
Not a factor	31%	28%	70%
Sample: 4745 respondents .
Population of area, five categories	Total	Obama	Romney
Over 500,000	11%	69%	29%
50,000 - 500,000	21%	58%	40%
Suburbs	47%	48%	50%
10,000 - 50,000	8%	42%	56%
Rural	14%	37%	61%
Sample: 26565 respondents .
Population of area, three categories	Total	Obama	Romney
City over 50,000	32%	62%	36%
Suburbs	47%	48%	50%
Small city and Rural	21%	39%	59%
Sample: 26565 respondents .