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Source:
Voters Cast Their Ballots With the Economy in Mind, Exit Polls Indicate
BOB DAVIS
WSJ, NOVEMBER 5, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122584499389399483.html
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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November 6th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
I wonder how much Terrorism as the top issue has decreased since 2004…
November 6th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I would be curious to see the income data for those who voted McCain on the terrorism issue. I suspect that the numbers would be from the low income people, implying that lower income people are more susceptible to fear mongering.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:03 am
Hmm, I wonder what “terrorism,” could be a euphemism for…
November 9th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
There must have been a lot of people whose “top issue” was terrorism, because he doesn’t get anywhere close to 47% without a commanding lead somewhere. Or perhaps, “No Comment” or “Decline to State” types, not shown, were all for McCain.
Anyway, it’d be nice to see some two-dimensional sorts. Younger people and low-income types were big wins for Obama — would those majorities dominate the heavy pro-Obama vote by minorities, or the other way around?