Exit Poll Analysis

After a national election the New York Time conducts exit polls to study personal characteristics of voters and determine how the characteristics play a role in the election. This particular poll evaluates voter demographics, socioeconomic status, political party, race and ethnicity, age, gender, education, and religious ideologies, to determine how each facet breaks down into each candidate. Exit polls become crucial to recognize voting patterns of groups and predicting election results.
In the most recent Presidential elections between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in 2012, polls show the most suggestive determinate to predicting how voters casted their votes was political party affiliation. The polls show 92% of Democrats voted for Obama