The roughly one-third of Americans who rely exclusively on cellphones tend to be younger, more urban, less well-off financially and more likely to be black or Hispanic than the broader group of voters, all characteristics that correlate with Democratic voters.
Cruz's voters shared characteristics with Trump's, though the numbers didn't tell as dramatic a trend.
The roughly one-third of Americans who rely exclusively on cellphones tend to be younger, more urban, worse off financially and more likely to be black or Hispanic than the broader group of voters, all characteristics that correlate with Democratic voting.
Even if an African-American voter had other characteristics that tended to correlate with Republican voting (like being older, or more rural, or wealthier), he or she is nevertheless overwhelmingly likely to vote for Mr. Obama.
Even when surveys of voters leaving polling places miss the margins of victory, as most did Tuesday in projecting a greater Dinkins victory than materialized, the data they provide about voter attitudes and the characteristics of candidates' supporters can still be relied on, polling experts say.
We examined the characteristics of voters and nonvoters, and found that the profiles of early voters and election day voters were mostly similar.
Because the houses that Mr. Gerber selected to receive mail were chosen randomly, the characteristics of voters who lived there should have been roughly the same as the characteristics of voters in the set of households that were not selected to get campaign mail.
They then interview voters to discover the characteristics they seek in their leaders, and write newspaper articles reflecting their findings.
Trende concluded that seven million fewer white people had voted in the 2012 election than had in 2008, and that the missing voters had certain identifiable characteristics.
