The last post on exit polls (below) prompted a number of comments... no surprise that the LGBT community is involved and opinionated. Let me just add a few things to this discussion.
First, it is true that the only insights the polls afforded about GLB voters came from states where the general population also voted for Clinton (NY and Cali), suggesting that it's possible queer voters were simply mirroring their straight counterparts. It would definitely have been interesting to see if the same were true in states like Illinois and Georgia, where Barack won big.
Poli-sci Prof. Ken Sherrill also noted a few things about the numbers. First, he questioned the sample in California, since it showed only 4% of CA voters identified themselves as GLB, which struck him as quite low.
He also said that queer exit polling is difficult to do in places where people are less likely to identify themselves because pollsters don't end up with a big enough sample to make it statistically significant. "You need 1500-2000 interviews," he said. "You want to be able to analyze at the very least 75-100 respondents. If you get fewer than that number saying they're GLB, it's not worth including the question."
Having said that, he added that states like Illinois, Texas, Florida should have enough GLB respondents to ask the question.
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