From NYTimes: NEP Survey of 2006 Mid-Term Voters: Who They Were

[flpoljunkie]

[underpants]

1. 54-46% overall can you say... "mandate"???

I see that we actually got 29% of the evangelicals. Other than that it was all majorities except for the white men (My peeps!) and the south and/or the born againers. We did get a majority of the Catholic vote again.

Oh and Republicans we only got 8% of "those people"

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Uh, wow, just wow.

The Republican Party is in danger of marginalization on a scale unheard of since the 30's. Of course the Democratic Party could manage to screw up the next two years so badly that we go back to where things were in 2002, but if we can build at all on the political gains made across the board here the Republican strategy might just have made them the party of religiously afflicted southerners. Nice job Rove!

[Auntie Bush]

14. When Rethugs win...we don't hear them worrying about how

they might screw up...even though they do. Why is that? Is it the media's fault for repeatedly saying that or is it our own negative energy and lack of self confidence? I say we should all here on DU concentrate on positive thinking and expressing confidence in our party.
I guess it's true that if we repeat something long enough...we soon learn to believe it. How sad.

No offense to you...many Duer's say the same thing and often also think it. Let's work at changing that meme. It'll be hard but we can do it if we realize our error.

[BR_Parkway]

3. 25% of the GLBT? Geeze, we've got a long ways to go

and that was only the ones who identified as such, not counting all the closet cases.

[kentuck]

4. Very interesting stats...

8% of Repubs did not vote for Repubs while 7% of Democrats did not vote for Democrats, but 59% of Independents voted for Democrats while 41% voted for Repubs.

The Democrats carried the West by 56% to 44%. The Repubs only carried the South.

In income brackets, Repubs only carried those that make over $100,000.

In religious groups, Democrats held their own except with the White, evangelicals, which they lost 71% to 29%.

Democrats had a higher percentage of the younger vote (18-29) than with any other age group.

[geek tragedy]

7. Full spectrum domination.

Irony's a bitch, eh neocons?

[lapfog_1]

5. two numbers that jump out

60/40 Dems in the 18-29 bracket. That's got to scare the pukes.

and 60/40 Independents... we got to work to keep these.

Great graphic... thanks for posting.

[Maggie_May]

6. This is a good tool

Looking at this is shows the areas that we need to work on in 2008. I have noticed the South numbers are better but can we improve? I really don't understand the women vote. How can you be a women and vote Republican? Women need to understand the Republicans have never stood up for women. The Religious vote is a stupid one its more about abortion and gay rights than anything else. Republicans care nothing about the poor. I guess these people who voted for Republicans have never read the bible.

[OzarkDem]

8. Dems are starting to win back women voters

They've always been the base of the party, its good to see Dems are beginning to bring them back.

[spooky3]

9. Hmm, I guess there ARE NO atheists, agnostics, Muslim, or people

who say they have no religion or don't wish to say?

:sarcasm:

[Zynx]

10. The areligious voted about 72% for Dems. Muslims I'm not sure, but

they never break out that vote in polling.

[Nimrod2005]

11. God bless the Jews, the women, the blacks, and the Hispanics!!!

I can't wait for the older white southern men to start dying off...

:rofl:

[flpoljunkie]

12. Don't forget the GLBT or young folks. They voted respectively 75%, 61% for the Dems.

[Vadem]

18. I got a sign at the Webb/Clinton/Kaine rally in Alexandria that..

states: "When women vote, Democrats win"! I'm keeping that one for the next election.

[passy]

13. Thank God for young Black Jewish women.

[Jawja]

15. Well that says to me

that the GOP is the party of rich white southern protestants!

I guess that was apparent all along, hunh?

[1932]

16. You've probably just described the next Dem. nominee for President

which might not be a bad thing.

[Jawja]

17. Absolutely.

That could be Gore, Clark or Edwards.

Any one of them I could enthusiastically support.

[Jai4WKC08]

21. Clark is a Catholic

Altho he and Gert started attending protestant services in his last few years in the military, and they both attend a Presbyterian church in Little Rock now, he says they have not changed official affiliation and both still consider themselves to be Catholics. I suspect they're none too happy with the hard line right-wing bishops have taken against pro-choice Democrats and the people who vote for them. :(

[Bicoastal]

19. JEWS RULE!!!

And here I was worrying that some had fallen for the insidious "Democrats hate Israel" ads printed in every Jewish newspaper....

Shame about Abramoff...and Lieberman....but Lieberman is really a Baptist claiming to be an Orthodox Jew who then became a Hindu to stay in office.

[ljm2002]

20. The thing that jumped out at me...

...is that when you break it down by age group -- not race, religion, gender, geography, but just by age -- Democrats won across the board!