Washington – Exit Poll: Economy Dominates Voters’ Worries

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    U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., exits his polling place after voting at the Highwood Community Center, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, in Highwood, Ill. Kirk is running to fill President Barack Obama's old Illinois senate seat. (AP Photo/Lois Bernstein)Washington – Voters across the nation Tuesday said they were intensely worried about the future of the economy and unhappy with the way President Barack Obama and Congress are running things.

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    Voters in overwhelming numbers were dissatisfied with the way the federal government is working and majorities disapproved of both the Republican and Democratic parties, according to an Associated Press analysis of preliminary exit poll results and pre-election polls.

    Voters say the economy eclipses any other issue.

    About a third say their household suffered a job loss in the past two years, but that didn’t give a clear direction to their voting. They divided over which party to support in Tuesday’s House races.

    About four in 10 say they are worse off financially than they were two years ago. More than 80 percent said they were worried about the direction of the economy over the next year.

    Only about a quarter of voters in Tuesday’s House races blamed Obama for the nation’s economic troubles. But about half think Obama’s policies will hurt the country.

    About four out of 10 voters said they support the tea party movement, and they overwhelmingly voted Republican.

    The preliminary results are from interviews that Edison Research conducted for The Associated Press and television networks with more than 11,000 voters nationwide. This included 9,525 interviews Tuesday in a random sample of 268 precincts nationally. In addition, landline and cellular telephone interviews were conducted Oct. 22-31 with 1,600 people who voted early or absentee.

    There is a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 1 percentage point for the entire sample, higher for subgroups.


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