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According to exit polls, McCain's victory in Massachusetts was due in large part to his image as a reformer. He scored high among Democrats and independents alike. Large numbers of Democratic voters switched their affiliations so that they could vote for McCain...
...that." All hope is not lost, though, for those in favor of sanctioned homosexual unions. Proposition 22, also known as the "Knight Initiative," after the proposal's sponsor, State Senator Pete Knight - whose gay son campaigned actively against the measure - was largely a mandate of the older population, while exit polls showed the under-40 crowd as evenly divided...
...about where he is now," says Pooley. Having not had to stray far from his centrist-Democrat path in his tussle with Bill Bradley, the vice president won't have to do too much repositioning in his wooing of McCain independents in the coming months. And according to the exit polls taken in open primaries exposing the social libertarianism of many McCain supporters on issues like gay rights, Gore's moderate stance on social issues will probably find a welcoming audience. The vice president also lost little time in keying in to one of McCain's strongest issues, campaign finance...
...exit polls came in early in the day, but he remained cautious. I was with him as he was sitting in his hotel suite with Tipper and was being very cautious, saying he wasn't taking any votes for granted. That's become the joke around the campaign because he says it so often. But for his campaign staff, it's almost like they're superstitious - they had such bad times early in the campaign that they act as though it's bad luck to sit back and enjoy any of this...
From the very first Super Tuesday exit polls, the numbers pointed to a very big win for George W. Bush. By early afternoon, TIME political correspondent John Dickerson, in Los Angeles with John McCain, put his finger on the prevailing mood. "It's shaping up to be a really bad night for this campaign," he said. It turned out that was something of an understatement. As the evening wore on, the suspense quickly waned and voters waited to see just how decisive the Bush victory would...