Roughly six in 10 Ohio voters express negative feelings about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, similar to sentiments among midterm voters in Ohio last year.
About four in 10 call themselves outright angry about it, roughly double the share of those who are enthusiastic about the court’s 2022 decision.
About 45% of female voters say they’re angry, compared with about a third of male voters.
The Ohio electorate turning out for the vote largely favors legal abortion – roughly three in 10 say the procedure should be legal in all cases and about a third that it should be legal in most cases, similar to the 2022 electorate.
About three in 10 say it should be legal in all cases, and about one-tenth that it should never be legal, but the majority of the electorate stands somewhere in between. Notably, while Democrats lead Republicans when it comes to which party voters trust to handle abortion, it’s by only a single-digit margin.
Two measures are on the ballot in this election in Ohio. One of them, Issue 1, would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution, while Issue 2 would create a new law legalizing and regulating recreational marijuana.
The Ohio CNN Exit Poll is a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and early in-person voters, along with telephone and online polls measuring the views of absentee by-mail and early voters.
It was conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. In-person interviews on Election Day were conducted at a random sample of 35 Ohio polling locations among 668 Election Day voters and at a random sample of 10 early in-person voting locations, among 1,188 early in-person voters. The results also include 842 interviews with early and absentee voters conducted by phone, online or by text.
Results for the full sample have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.
