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2698d ago / 10:41 PM UTC

NBC News Exit Poll: ‘Economy Voters’ Tilt to Clinton; Immigration a Strong Issue for Trump

Early results from the NBC News Exit Poll show that about half of voters picked the economy as the top issue. Terrorism trailed, followed by foreign policy and immigration.

Among those who said the economy is most important, Clinton holds a solid lead. 

Trump is leading among those who chose terrorism and immigration. Among the approximately one-fifth of voters who said that terrorism is the most important issue, Trump is trouncing Clinton by a margin of nearly 20 percentage points. 

Clinton is leading among the relatively small number of voters who say foreign policy is most important.

2698d ago / 3:35 PM UTC

Meet the NBC News Exit Poll Desk Team

Throughout Election Night, a team of survey research analysts will be crunching the numbers on who voted, what issues were on their minds and why they voted the way they did.

The team includes Stephanie Psyllos, manager of exit polling, NBC News; Scott Keeter, senior survey advisor at Pew Research Center; Courtney Kennedy, director of survey research at Pew Research Center; Cary Funk, associate director of research at Pew Research Center; Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute; Maureen Michaels, president of Michaels Opinion Research Inc.; Mara Ostfeld, postdoctoral fellow, Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan; Patrick Egan, associate professor of politics and public policy at New York University; Hannah Hartig, assistant director, University of Pennsylvania's Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies; Jennifer Su, senior project director, Princeton Survey Research Associates International; and Andrew Arenge, assistant producer, NBC News. The NBC News Exit Poll Desk works closely with digital editors David Taintor and Elizabeth Johnstone to curate the stories we produce.