Washington post graphics/breakdown of Virginia vote.

[phylny]

I would imagine we will see similar results nationwide.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/local/virginia-politics/governor-exit-polls/?utm_term=.82ee6c360c6f|

[emulatorloo]

1. Thanks for the link! Bookmarking K&R

[sandensea]

2. Ours is the only big tent party in this country.

When the issues become clear, our coalition of moderate/liberal white voters plus minority voters is unstoppable.

I guess we should be grateful to Cheeto for helping people see that.

[underpants]

3. Really good info

The overall is that those who tend to agree with the Dems or who focus on our issues were the dominate group in each subgroup.

[NastyRiffraff]

4. Very interesting!

Some quick takeaways:

The elections were indeed referendums on Donald Trump. VA doesn't like him.
Nobody seems to care about abortion as an issue.
Independents were almost evenly divided
Income made little or no difference, but...
education or lack of it DID. Non-college went for Gillespie, the educated for Northam.
Non-whites went for Northam in a big way (80%-19%)
Age matters, but only in the younger spectrum. After about age 45, fairly even
Women went for Northam; men were split.