Midterm Elections

On CNN NEWSROOM T.J. Holmes reports on the voter turnouts of the midterm elections. Jessica Yellin, National Political Correspondent, has new details from CNN's exit poll about who voted and who didn't and where the Democrats suffered most. Democrats are grieving at the number of the votes they got in the defeat of the midterm elections. The numbers behind te defeat arent good for the president or his party says T.J Holmes. Democrats lost against independennt voter, women, whites with no education, and seniors; making this really bad for the Democrats in their loss of lots of votes. On the show they showed some statistics of independent and women voter turnouts. In 2008, independent voters voted 52 percent for Obama and in 2010 they voted 37 percent for Democrats. Democrats lost independent voters by 25 percent. 

This year women voted 49 percent for Republicans and 48 percent for Democrats, which is not much of a difference but it is he first time since exit polling that women go for Republicans. And only 35 percent of voters who self identify as Democrats turned out thats the lowest since 1986. These numbers are a big change and bad for Democrats. Yellin says that taking into consideration that the midterm vote is always lower than the presidential vote, the voting turn out for midterm votes were still a big change in difference for this year. Yellin reports that Obama still has a chance for 2012 because he will have much more campaign enthusiasm or maybe he wont if economy stays where it is and will loose more votes. So you can't say for sure what will happen so theres a lot of excitement for the media to cover in the results. 

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