With four issues to choose from, Louisiana voters were fairly evenly split in choosing between the economy and health care as the most important one facing the state, according to the final results of exit polling conducted for The Associated Press and television networks. While 38% said health care is the top issue, 36% said it’s the economy. Illegal immigration was named by 14% of voters polled, and foreign policy by 8%.
In the Dec. 6 runoff between incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu and Republican challenger Rep. Bill Cassidy, 51% of voters responding to Tuesday’s exit poll said they would vote for Cassidy, 43% said they would vote for Landrieu, and 4% said they would not vote in a runoff.
The results also show about seven in 10 Louisiana voters feel the national economy is not too good or poor, and four in 10 feel it’s getting worse. Fifty-six percent of Louisiana voters say they believe the 2010 federal health care law went too far.
Also, 49% of Louisiana voters polled strongly disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is doing his job, and another 10% somewhat disapprove. One-third of Louisiana voters described themselves as angry at the Obama administration, and 30% said they were dissatisfied with it.
Seventeen percent of Louisiana voters said they were angry at Republican leaders in Congress, and another 33% said they were dissatisfied. About seven in 10 Louisiana voters said they do not think Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal would make a good president.
The exit poll of 2,444 Louisiana voters was conducted for the AP and the television networks by Edison Research in a random sample of 40 precincts statewide. Read the full story.
