Analysis of recent polling and elections survey data indicates that while his base his broad, its members tend, overall, to be older, whiter, poorer, less conservative, less-well educated and, going by past voting records, less likely to turn out than supporters of rival candidates.
In the ANU post-election survey, 74% of the sample believed government could make little difference to household finances.
"Looking ahead to their post-election agenda, this is not a group looking for 'austerity,' " the Democracy Corps wrote in a report accompanying its post-election survey.
Even then, ABC's online election survey Vote Compass found only 20% of 15,000 surveyed opposed a ban on jumps racing.
Pew Research Center went into the field on Wednesday night and hopes to complete its final pre-election survey by the end of the weekend.
According to Professor John Warhurst of the Australian National University, since 1993, the Australian Election Survey has shown the republican majority "has always been about two-thirds of the electorate".
In one survey, by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 18percentt of black adults said they would like to see Mr. Bush win, double the 9percentt who said they supported him in the pre-election survey by the Joint Center in 2000.
A post-election survey by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press found fewer people than in previous elections saying their votes were against one candidate rather than for the other.
To the contrary, the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan conducted a post-election survey and stated in a press release: "The European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (Eupol) completed its assessment of the Afghan National Police's (A.N.P).
Slightly more than half of the voters whose monthly income was less than 5,000 baht, or about $165, voted for Pheu Thai, according to an election survey, while less than a third voted for the Democrat Party.
In the first two hours of her canvass along Hook Hollow Circle last Saturday, Ms. Ashbrook, 52, knocked on more than 25 doors, hanging flyers with the Kerry endorsement on doorknobs and saying she was doing an election survey.
