Exit Polls: Obama's Winning Coalition of Women and Non-Whites

A coalition of women and nonwhites helped re-elect President Obama to a second term tonight. Obama has always performed better with women than with men, and with nonwhites than with whites. But tonight those numbers were so much in his favor that they built Obama a powerful firewall against a dropoff in support from white men and independent voters. Nonwhite voters turned out to vote in higher numbers than ever. They made up 21 percent of all voters. In 1996, they were just 10 percent. That...Full Story