It's a way of understanding why people voted for different candidates. The polling is entirely random, and it winds up to be a very accurate portrait of the entire nation. We poll about 56,000 people in all, and, believe it or not, they do speak for the 200 million Americans eligible to vote. I found a very divided nation. People said, as they have frequently in the past, that they want to continue the course the country's going on, but they also said they want the government to do less, rather than more.
Most people support stricter gun control laws.
Most people believe abortion should be legal. And most people do not want school vouchers. We have seen a gender gap for many years, where women favor Democrats and men favor Republicans. And I should point out that I'm talking about white women and white men. Much of the difference seems linked to the fact that men want a smaller government and women don't necessarily agree.