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...contests. Asked what would have happened if Mondale had lost Georgia to Hart, as he came close to doing, Campaign Manager Robert Beckel squeezed an imaginary golf club, sighted down an imaginary fairway and intoned: "Boca Raton, about 290 yards, par four." But the Mondale camp could point to exit polls showing that in several of last week's primaries, voters who made their choice in the final few days mostly went to the former Vice President. The swing was enough to produce must wins in Georgia and Alabama...
Call them the Me generation or Baby Boomers or Yumpies (young upwardly mobile professionals). By any label, younger, more affluent, better-educated voters appear to have embraced Gary Hart's "new generation" politics. On Super Tuesday, they provided Hart with his most consistent support, according to NBC exit polls. In Georgia, for instance, Hart lost overall but led by a wide margin among 25-to 34-year-olds (28% to 19%), college graduates (29% to 20%) and those earning more than $40,000 (37% to 25%). Conceded a top Mondale aide: "There's little question about the numbers...
...Alabama, according to an NBC exit poll, Jackson won 60% of the black vote to 34% for Walter Mondale, who was backed by Joe Reed, chairman of the black Alabama Democratic Conference. (A New York Times/CBS survey found the Alabama vote split more evenly: 50% for Jackson, 47% for Mondale.) One weak spot for Jackson was the Birmingham area, where Mondale, aided by black Mayor Richard Arlington, trounced him by 2 to 1. In Georgia, where Mondale was supported by Coretta Scott King and State Senator Julian Bond, blacks cast 70% of their ballots for Jackson, 24% for the former...
...networks continued to forecast the outcome of races, often in advance of any actual tally, based on "exit polls" of people leaving voting places. While the real polls were still open, John Glenn was virtually decreed out of the race by reporters, including ABC's Jennings and NBC's Brokaw in live interviews. Said Glenn: "When you people make projections like that, it discourages an awful lot of good folks from going to the polls...
...exit surveys do serve a useful purpose: they provide information about the demographic profiles of the candidates' supporters. Some of the findings are instructive-that Hart's voters are younger than Mondale's, for example, or that 20% of Jesse Jackson's black voters had registered within the past several months-but the statistics belie the often impulsive, unarticulated motives for voting. Last week, in an effort to restore some mystery and fun to the electoral process, Chicago Tribune Columnist Mike Royko offered some advice to voters confronted by exit pollsters. "Don't give them...