Among which demographic did Gary Johnson perform well in?

[jman123]

What group of people were the main drivers behind his  relatively strong showing ( in context )as a third party candidate last November?

[JA]

Your subject line is triggering my OCD.

[Vosem]

Young men.

[JonHawk]

Pot smoking males, where lighting up a joint>>>>>>>>>>>

[White Trash]

White, upper middle class, college men.

[Oryxslayer]

New Mexicans.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Hopefully his domestic partner.

[Mr. Morden]

The exit poll grouped all 3rd party votes together, but it had whites under 30 as the group that voted most for 3rd party candidates, and Johnson obviously dominated the 3rd party vote.

[Nyvin]

White straight men under the age of 30.

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

White straight men under the age of 30.

[Hydera]

"Anti-establishment" left wingers who didnt want to vote for Hillary or Stein.

"Libertarian leaning" or moderate republicans who didnt want to vote for Trump.

New Mexican residents who still remember Gary Johnson and voted for him regardless of their politics because they didnt want to vote for the other three.

[Dr. MB]

I'm wondering what his demographic percentages were in New Mexico. NM has a roughly equal percent of whites and Hispanics, and also with a lot of native Americans. He got about 10% in NM total. I'd guess it would be higher among whites so what percent of the white vote did he get? 15%?

[Mr. Morden]

I'm wondering what his demographic percentages were in New Mexico. NM has a roughly equal percent of whites and Hispanics, and also with a lot of native Americans. He got about 10% in NM total. I'd guess it would be higher among whites so what percent of the white vote did he get? 15%?

Here is the New Mexico exit poll, so you can look for yourself:

http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls/new-mexico/president

[tallguy23]

Young white men (under 50).

[The Govanah Jake]

After all, he did best in New Mexico with a population that is 50% Hispanic

I don't think he did best in the state due to Hispanics but do to the fact that he was the former New Mexico governor.
Now as for best performance:

"Anti-establishment" left wingers who didnt want to vote for Hillary or Stein.

"Libertarian leaning" or moderate republicans who didnt want to vote for Trump.

New Mexican residents who still remember Gary Johnson and voted for him regardless of their politics because they didnt want to vote for the other three.

[Santander]

Stoners who have never been locked up for drug possession because of white privilege.

[Hydera]

I'm wondering what his demographic percentages were in New Mexico. NM has a roughly equal percent of whites and Hispanics, and also with a lot of native Americans. He got about 10% in NM total. I'd guess it would be higher among whites so what percent of the white vote did he get? 15%?

Here is the New Mexico exit poll, so you can look for yourself:

http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls/new-mexico/president

The amount of votes in new mexico in 2012 and 2016 didnt change dramatically so comparing that exit poll with 2012 is really useful.

http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/state/NM/president/

Compared to 2012...


12% of Men: he took 3% from other, 1% from Republican and 8% from the Democrats

7% of Women: 1% from Other, 5% from republicans, 1% from the democrats.


Gary Johnson: 4% in 2012 for Other, 17% among 18-29 in 2016 for Gary, he took 5% from the GOP and 12% from the democrats.


Party: 6% of Democrats of which 5% voted for Obama and 1% voted for romney


Basically he got more out of the democrats than he did from republicans which show that half of his increases had to do with democrats voting for Johnson because they didnt like Hillary and the rest either from republicans or different reasons.

[Mr. Morden]

Basically he got more out of the democrats than he did from republicans which show that half of his increases had to do with democrats voting for Johnson because they didnt like Hillary and the rest either from republicans or different reasons.

Yeah, but New Mexico voters actually knew him well from his time as governor, whereas in much of the rest of the country, many voters might have simply seen him as Generic Libertarian Protest Candidate.  I wouldn't take it as a sure thing that the profile of Johnson voters in New Mexico matched the profile of Johnson voters in the rest of the country.

[Kleine Scheiße]

I'm wondering what his demographic percentages were in New Mexico. NM has a roughly equal percent of whites and Hispanics, and also with a lot of native Americans. He got about 10% in NM total. I'd guess it would be higher among whites so what percent of the white vote did he get? 15%?

Here is the New Mexico exit poll, so you can look for yourself:

http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls/new-mexico/president

unmarried independent 25-29 year old latino men with some college making under $30k/year and that decided who to vote for in october, got it

[Hydera]

I'm wondering what his demographic percentages were in New Mexico. NM has a roughly equal percent of whites and Hispanics, and also with a lot of native Americans. He got about 10% in NM total. I'd guess it would be higher among whites so what percent of the white vote did he get? 15%?

Here is the New Mexico exit poll, so you can look for yourself:

http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls/new-mexico/president

unmarried independent 25-29 year old latino men with some college making under $30k/year and that decided who to vote for in october, got it

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/1998/states/MN/G/exit.poll.html


If you wanna go back further. Jesse Ventura's campaign in 1998 did better among 15-75K. 18-29. Men, High school to some college, independents, liberals. These kind of demographics are lean democrat but are prone to voting 3rd party if they don't like the dem candidate.

[Mr. Morden]

I'm still annoyed by the fact that there was no "Who did you vote for in the *last* presidential election?" question in the exit poll this time.  They usually include that question, but left it out in 2016.  I'd love to know, of the 2016 3rd party voters...

what % voted Obama in 2012?
what % voted Romney in 2012?
what % voted 3rd party in 2012?
what % voted didn't vote in 2012?

[tschandler]

I'm a Johnson voter (obviously). I'm white, straight, 30 yr old, male from rural Alabama.  I have a BSE and work in Flexographic Printing.  My peers that bachelors or higher voted Johnson.  Do you know how hard it was being in manufacturing and not being a Trump voter?