Arizona Exit Polling--Presidential Race

Republican Mitt Romney carried Arizona in the 2012 election. Following is the Fox News exit polling for Grand Canyon State voters:

Exit PollPresident - ArizonaSample: 1682 respondents
Are you: Total Obama Romney Male 49% 40% 57% Female 51% 46% 53% Sample: 1682 respondents
In which age group are you? Total Obama Romney 18-29 26% 63% 36% 30-44 29% 37% 59% 45-64 32% 38% 61% 65 or over 12% 29% 71% Sample: 1672 respondents
In which age group are you? Total Obama Romney 18-24 13% 66% 32% 25-29 13% 59% 39% 30-39 20% 37% 58% 40-49 19% 40% 58% 50-64 23% 36% 64% 65 or over 12% 29% 71% Sample: 1672 respondents
Are you: Total Obama Romney White 74% 32% 66% Black 4% - - Hispanic/Latino 18% 74% 25% Asian 2% - - Other 2% - - Sample: 1642 respondents
Sex by race Total Obama Romney White men 37% 30% 67% White women 37% 35% 65% Black men 2% - - Black women 2% - - Latino men 8% 71% 27% Latino women 10% 77% 22% All other races 4% - - Sample: 1642 respondents
On most political matters, do you consider yourself: Total Obama Romney Liberal 19% 86% 12% Moderate 42% 51% 46% Conservative 39% 12% 87% Sample: 1615 respondents
No matter how you voted today, do you usually think of yourself as a: Total Obama Romney Democrat 26% 87% 12% Republican 35% 7% 93% Independent or something else 39% 45% 51% Sample: 1651 respondents
What was the last grade of school you completed? Total Obama Romney No high school diploma 2% - - High school graduate 19% 46% 54% Some college/assoc. degree 36% 42% 56% College graduate 29% 36% 63% Postgraduate study 15% 54% 42% Sample: 1640 respondents
What was the last grade of school you completed? Total Obama Romney College graduate 44% 42% 56% No college degree 56% 44% 55% Sample: 1640 respondents
What was the last grade of school you completed? Total Obama Romney More than high school graduate 80% 42% 56% High school graduate or less 20% 46% 53% Sample: 1640 respondents
2011 total family income: Total Obama Romney Under $30,000 21% 49% 49% $30,000 - $49,999 23% 45% 54% $50,000 - $99,999 33% 41% 57% $100,000 - $199,999 18% 37% 61% $200,000 - $249,999 2% - - $250,000 or more 3% - - Sample: 1499 respondents
2011 total family income: Total Obama Romney Under $50,000 45% 47% 51% $50,000-$99,999 33% 41% 57% $100,000 or more 23% 43% 56% Sample: 1499 respondents
2011 total family income: Total Obama Romney Under $50,000 45% 47% 51% $50,000 or more 55% 42% 56% Sample: 1499 respondents
2011 total family income: Total Obama Romney Under $100,000 77% 44% 54% $100,000 or more 23% 43% 56% Sample: 1499 respondents
How often do you attend religious services? Total Obama Romney More than once a week 10% - - Once a week 23% - - A few times a month 12% - - A few times a year 29% - - Never 27% - - Sample: 319 respondents
How often do you attend religious services? Total Obama Romney Weekly 32% 17% 80% Occasionally 40% 36% 63% Never 27% - - Sample: 319 respondents
Religion, combined Protestant and other Christian Total Obama Romney Protestant or other Christian 53% 29% 70% Catholic 20% 50% 50% Jewish 1% - - Something else 7% - - None 19% - - Sample: 616 respondents
Religion among whites Total Obama Romney White Protestant/Other Christian 44% 20% 79% White Catholic 13% - - White Jewish 1% - - White something else 4% - - White none 15% - - Non-white 24% 71% 27% Sample: 609 respondents
Church attendance by Religion Total Obama Romney Protestant/Attend weekly 8% - - Protestant/Do not attend weekly 15% - - Catholic/Attend weekly 8% - - Catholic/Do not attend weekly 11% - - All Others 58% 45% 53% Sample: 319 respondents
White evangelical or white born-again Christians Total Obama Romney White evangelical or white born-again Christian 21% - - All others 79% 43% 56% Sample: 317 respondents
Which comes closest to your position? Abortion should be: Total Obama Romney Legal in all cases 26% - - Legal in most cases 37% 43% 54% Illegal in most cases 27% - - Illegal in all cases 8% - - Sample: 319 respondents
Which comes closest to your position? Abortion should be: Total Obama Romney Legal 64% 51% 48% Illegal 35% 10% 89% Sample: 319 respondents
How do you feel about the Tea Party movement? Total Obama Romney Support 21% - - Neutral 50% 28% 71% Oppose 22% 85% 14% Sample: 319 respondents
Which ONE of these four issues is the most important facing the country? (CHECK ONLY ONE) Total Obama Romney Foreign policy 7% - - Federal budget deficit 19% 20% 72% The economy 58% 43% 57% Health care 13% 75% 25% Sample: 689 respondents
Which ONE of these four candidate qualities mattered most in deciding how you voted for president? (CHECK ONLY ONE) Total Obama Romney Shares my values 28% 32% 67% Is a strong leader 17% 31% 67% Cares about people like me 19% 77% 17% Has a vision for the future 34% 44% 55% Sample: 689 respondents
Which ONE of these four is the biggest economic problem facing people like you? (CHECK ONLY ONE) Total Obama Romney The housing market 7% - - Unemployment 34% 43% 57% Taxes 10% - - Rising prices 45% 43% 52% Sample: 338 respondents
What should happen to the 2010 health care law? Total Obama Romney Expand it 23% - - Leave it as is 13% - - Repeal some of it 22% - - Repeal all of it 35% - - Sample: 340 respondents
What should happen to the 2010 health care law? Total Obama Romney Expand it or leave it as is 36% 89% 8% Repeal some of it or repeal all of it 57% 9% 88% Sample: 340 respondents
Should income tax rates: Total Obama Romney Increase for all 7% - - Increase only on income over $250,000 46% 60% 35% Not increase for anyone 45% 22% 77% Sample: 342 respondents
Should most illegal immigrants working in the United States be: Total Obama Romney Offered a chance to apply for legal status 61% 51% 47% Deported to the country they came from 33% - - Sample: 319 respondents
Who is more in touch with people like you? Total Obama Romney Barack Obama 50% 83% 15% Mitt Romney 45% - 100% Sample: 340 respondents
Who would better handle the economy? Total Obama Romney Barack Obama 39% 98% - Mitt Romney 58% 4% 94% Sample: 340 respondents
Who would better handle Medicare? Total Obama Romney Barack Obama 40% 96% 2% Mitt Romney 53% 1% 98% Sample: 340 respondents
Who would better handle the federal budget deficit? Total Obama Romney Barack Obama 39% 98% - Mitt Romney 59% 4% 94% Sample: 342 respondents
Which is closer to your view: Total Obama Romney Government should do more to solve problems 38% 88% 12% Government is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals 58% 20% 80% Sample: 351 respondents
Do you think the condition of the nation's economy is: Total Obama Romney Excellent - - - Good 13% - - Not so good 44% 52% 46% Poor 42% 17% 77% Sample: 338 respondents
Do you think the condition of the nation's economy is: Total Obama Romney Excellent or good 13% - - Not so good or poor 86% 35% 61% Sample: 338 respondents
Is the U.S. economy: Total Obama Romney Getting better 39% 89% 9% Getting worse 26% 4% 96% Staying about the same 30% - - Sample: 338 respondents
Economic Conditions Are... Total Obama Romney Getting better 39% 89% 9% Good and staying the same 1% - - Poor and staying the same 29% - - Getting worse 26% 4% 96% Sample: 338 respondents
Compared to four years ago, is your family's financial situation: Total Obama Romney Better today 32% 92% 8% Worse today 39% 7% 92% About the same 28% 57% 43% Sample: 351 respondents
Do you think things in this country today are: Total Obama Romney Generally going in the right direction 47% 86% 14% Seriously off on the wrong track 46% 8% 90% Sample: 315 respondents
Who is more to blame for current economic problems? Total Obama Romney Barack Obama 42% 4% 96% George W. Bush 47% 83% 15% Sample: 338 respondents
Do you think the U.S. economic system generally: Total Obama Romney Favors the wealthy 49% 64% 31% Is fair to most Americans 46% 17% 83% Sample: 340 respondents
Should taxes be raised to help cut the budget deficit? Total Obama Romney Yes 33% 84% 16% No 65% 20% 75% Sample: 338 respondents
Which comes closest to your feelings about the Obama administration: Total Obama Romney Enthusiastic 17% - - Satisfied, but not enthusiastic 24% - - Dissatisfied, but not angry 38% 13% 81% Angry 20% - - Sample: 342 respondents
Which comes closest to your feelings about the Obama administration: Total Obama Romney Positive 41% 89% 10% Negative 58% 8% 88% Sample: 342 respondents
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president? Total Obama Romney Strongly approve 22% 93% 3% Somewhat approve 21% - - Somewhat disapprove 10% - - Strongly disapprove 46% - 98% Sample: 340 respondents
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president? Total Obama Romney Approve 43% 91% 7% Disapprove 56% 3% 94% Sample: 340 respondents
Is your opinion of Barack Obama: Total Obama Romney Favorable 54% 87% 12% Unfavorable 44% 1% 98% Sample: 315 respondents
Is your opinion of Mitt Romney: Total Obama Romney Favorable 51% 4% 96% Unfavorable 44% 95% 2% Sample: 315 respondents
Do Barack Obama’s policies generally favor: Total Obama Romney The rich 14% - - The middle class 44% 87% 12% The poor 29% - - Sample: 315 respondents
Would Mitt Romney’s policies generally favor: Total Obama Romney The rich 48% 85% 13% The middle class 39% 15% 83% The poor 4% - - Sample: 315 respondents
Do you trust Barack Obama to handle an international crisis? Total Obama Romney Yes 47% 84% 13% No 53% 3% 94% Sample: 340 respondents
Do you trust Mitt Romney to handle an international crisis? Total Obama Romney Yes 60% 13% 85% No 35% 86% 10% Sample: 340 respondents
Do you trust _____ to handle an international crisis? Total Obama Romney Only Barack Obama 29% 100% - Only Mitt Romney 45% - 100% Both of them 15% - - Neither of them 6% - - Sample: 340 respondents
Which best describes your vote for president today? Total Obama Romney I strongly favor my candidate 52% 39% 60% I like my candidate but with reservations 26% - - I dislike the other candidates 19% - - Sample: 323 respondents
When did you finally decide for whom to vote in the presidential election? Total Obama Romney Just today 1% - - In the last few days 5% - - In October 11% - - In September 9% - - Before that 74% 47% 53% Sample: 351 respondents
When did you finally decide for whom to vote in the presidential election? Total Obama Romney Just today or in the last few days 6% - - In October or in September or before that 93% 48% 52% Sample: 351 respondents
When did you finally decide for whom to vote in the presidential election? Total Obama Romney Just today or in the last few days or in October 16% - - Before that 82% 47% 53% Sample: 351 respondents
Are you currently married? Total Obama Romney Yes 55% 32% 67% No 45% 58% 40% Sample: 1319 respondents
Gender by marital status Total Obama Romney Married men 30% 29% 68% Married women 26% 35% 64% Non-married men 19% 56% 42% Non-married women 25% 60% 39% Sample: 1319 respondents
Do you have any children under 18 living in your home? Total Obama Romney Yes 34% 48% 51% No 66% 42% 57% Sample: 970 respondents
Married with children: Total Obama Romney Married with children 22% 38% 61% All others 78% 46% 53% Sample: 971 respondents
Parents Total Obama Romney Men with children 18% 39% 59% Women with children 15% 59% 41% Men without children 32% 44% 55% Women without children 34% 41% 59% Sample: 970 respondents
Does anyone in your household belong to a labor union? Total Obama Romney Yes 11% - - No 89% 50% 48% Sample: 311 respondents
Do you work full-time for pay? Total Obama Romney Yes 66% 51% 48% No 34% 42% 56% Sample: 318 respondents
Should your state legally recognize same-sex marriage? Total Obama Romney Yes 57% 55% 44% No 42% 10% 88% Sample: 323 respondents
Are you gay, lesbian or bisexual? Total Obama Romney Yes 7% - - No 93% 42% 56% Sample: 621 respondents
In your vote for president, how would you rate the importance of Obama's hurricane response? Total Obama Romney The most important factor 14% - - An important factor 28% - - A minor factor 23% - - Not a factor at all 32% - - Sample: 140 respondents
In your vote for president, how would you rate the importance of Obama's hurricane response? Total Obama Romney Important 41% - - Not important 55% - - Sample: 140 respondents
In your vote for president, how would you rate the importance of Obama's hurricane response? Total Obama Romney Factor 64% - - Not a factor 32% - - Sample: 140 respondents
Population of area, five categories Total Obama Romney Over 500,000 17% 55% 45% 50,000 - 500,000 33% 50% 47% Suburbs 40% 35% 64% 10,000 - 50,000 3% - - Rural 7% - - Sample: 1682 respondents
Population of area, three categories Total Obama Romney City over 50,000 50% 52% 46% Suburbs 40% 35% 64% Small city and Rural 10% 33% 65% Sample: 1682 respondents