While Obama, like John Kerry, won those with low or moderate annual incomes (60% of those making less than $50,000 a year), more striking was the exit poll finding that he carried more than half (52%) of voters with annual incomes of $200,000 or more. Kerry won just 35% of these high-income voters in 2004. Read More

Russell Heimlich  is a former web developer at Pew Research Center.