Some early exits from VA and NC. It’s good that most voters in each state say they are liberal. A lot of voters made their mind up late (especially in VA since NC gas early voting). That’s not so good.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/03/politics/super-tuesday-exit-polls/index.html

Black voters made up about a quarter of the electorate in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries in both North Carolina and Virginia. That’s about on par with the 2016 results in Virginia, and represents a slight drop in the share of black voters in North Carolina compared with 2016.

White voters made up about two-thirds in each state, while Latino voters were roughly 5% in each state.

The Democratic primary electorate in South Carolina, which voted on Saturday and was the first Southern state to cast ballots in the primary, included 55% black voters, according to the CNN exit poll there.

The two Super Tuesday states appear significantly more liberal than South Carolina’s electorate, according to these preliminary results. A majority of voters in each state described themselves as liberal in the early exit poll. In South Carolina, it was 47%.

Truly stunning to hear some Republicans advocate for free Coronavirus testing and treatment for the uninsured.

Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.), one of the most anti-ACA members:

“You can look at it as socialized medicine, but in the face of an outbreak, a pandemic, what’s your options?”

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) March 3, 2020

More early exits. Definitely doesn’t look good for Bernie in VA where more than half said beating Trump is most important and Biden is getting half of those so he would appear to at least have 25%. At least Maine seems in the bag

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/03/politics/super-tuesday-exit-polls/index.html

As Democratic candidates continue to jockey over how to accent or exploit Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) identity as a democratic socialist, Democratic primary voters in a handful of states were asked to share their views on socialism via the exit poll. Preliminary data from Edison Research found views differing substantially by region. In Maine, neighboring Sanders country, favorable views of socialism outnumbered unfavorable roughly 2 to 1 in early exit polls. Further South, in North Carolina and Tennessee, voters were much more divided. In all three states, large majorities of those supporting Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) had positive views of socialism, distinctly different than former vice president Joe Biden or former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg voters.

Early exit polling found about half of Democratic primary voters in Virginia who said Biden is the candidate who would have the best chance of beating President Trump in November, while roughly 2 in 10 said Sanders is best positioned to beat Trump. There were similar patterns in three other southern states voting today — North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee. In Sanders’s home state of Vermont, he held an edge over Biden as the best candidate to go up against the president, while Democratic voters in two other New England states were more spit in their views. In each of these states fewer than 2 in 10 voters named Bloomberg — or Warren — as the best candidate to go against Trump.

The suspension of Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-Minn.) campaign seems to have had an effect on voters in Minnesota, where almost 6 in 10 said they picked their candidate within the last few days, by far the highest proportion of voters across the nation on Super Tuesday, according to preliminary exit polls. Almost half of the voters in Massachusetts, Virginia and Oklahoma also said they made up their mind within the last few days. That was higher than in other states where voters were asked when they decided for whom to vote. In New Hampshire, 51 percent of voters made up their minds in the last few days in response to the Iowa primary. Voters in Sanders’s home state of Vermont along with several southern states — Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama and Texas — were more likely to have made their decisions earlier.

Over half of Virginia Democratic primary voters said that they would rather see the Democratic Party nominate a candidate who can beat Trump according to preliminary exit polls. That compares to about 4 in 10 who said they’d prefer a candidate who agrees with them on major issues. In South Carolina, a similar share said they’d prefer a candidate who could beat Trump and just over half of them voted for Biden.

Just voted! very few people at our location when we went in, 7 machines managed by 3 staffers all under 28 probably.

Long list of candidates, Bernie was on the second page. Biden was on the third, very last by himself