Kamala’s cat women couldn’t save her.

Vice President Harris, who was famously derided as the candidate of choice for “childless cat ladies,” did win over the female cat owner vote by 7 percentage points in the presidential election, but it was nowhere near the lopsided margins she needed to overcome President-elect Donald Trump.

In fact, Mr. Trump won among men cat owners by an even bigger 9-point margin, and he won dog owners to boot — both men and women.

Those numbers are just some of the demographic details that emerged from the Fox News/Associated Press election day survey, a massive poll covering tens of thousands of voters. The survey, along with traditional exit polling by a consortium led by CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC, sliced and diced the electorate in myriad ways, trying to tease out who voted and what they think about the issues.

Overall, the picture showed voters who are deeply dissatisfied with the country, which seemed to benefit Mr. Trump. Voters also seemed to trust him more on handling the things that were their top priorities, such as immigration, crime and the economy.

Ms. Harris was more trusted on abortion, climate change and health care.

Yet when presented with specific policy questions, voters seemed inclined toward the ones more associated with Ms. Harris than Mr. Trump.

Some 55% said they supported continuing U.S. aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia, and 53% said they oppose a ban on abortions after 15 weeks into a pregnancy. More than 60% said they support legalizing marijuana use nationwide. And 52% said they oppose laws that have been passed in GOP-leaning states restricting gender treatment drugs for juveniles who identify as transgender.

Half of voters in the CNN poll said they want the government “more involved” in imposing vaccine mandates on children. Just 26% wanted less involvement.

Voters were about evenly divided on Mr. Trump’s idea of raising tariffs on foreign imports, and also evenly divided on President Biden’s student loan cancelation programs.

They tacked heavily in favor of Mr. Trump’s positions on the border, with a startling 67% saying they want to cut down on the number of people using the asylum system to sneak into the U.S., according to the Fox survey.

But the CNN exit poll showed when asked if illegal immigrants should be deported or given a path to “legal status,” 56% backed the amnesty option.

Democrats’ attempts to argue that Mr. Trump was a unique threat to democracy fell flat. While 73% of voters in CNN’s exit polling said democracy in the U.S. was “threatened,” Mr.Trump actually won them 51-48.

Pollsters delved deeply into voters’ identities.

Fox said 10% of voters were Hispanic, and half of those were of Mexican origin. Just 2% were Middle Eastern or North African, and they broke for Ms. Harris 49-45.

Fox said 8% of voters identified as LGBT and Ms. Harris won that demographic 86-13. CNN’s polling put the figure at 9% of the electorate, with Ms. Harris winning them 78-20.

The Fox survey found that 28% of Election Day voters were regular users of TikTok, the social media platform popular among younger adults. Ms. Harris won a majority of their vote with 53%, but Mr. Trump was surprisingly close at 46%.

The pet ownership questions were new to Fox’s survey this year — perhaps prompted by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance’s comment years ago that Ms. Harris was part of a cabal of “childless cat ladies.” Pro-Harris signs with pictures of cats quickly sprung up in deep-blue neighborhoods and singer Taylor Swift, in endorsing Ms. Harris, associated herself with the cat ladies.

The Guardian newspaper headlined a story before Election Day pondering whether the remark could “hold the key to the U.S. election.”

Exit polling says it was not, in fact, key.

Women cat owners backed the vice president 53-46. But Mr. Trump won men cat owners 54-45. The survey did not break those down into parents and child-free.

Dog owners may actually have been more decisive, with half of the electorate saying they owned a pooch.

The men among them gave Mr. Trump a 16-point advantage, and he won the women dog owners by 4 points. Non-dog owners went for Ms. Harris 53-45.

The data punctured some conventional wisdom about the election.

Muslim voters, for example, did not abandon Democrats in droves, despite Mr. Biden’s handling of Israel’s war with Hamas.

Fox’s survey showed they were about 1% of the electorate and they voted for Ms. Harris by a 63-32 margin. That’s not substantially different than Mr. Biden’s 64-35 margin in 2020, though the number of Muslims who voted for an independent or third party did rise from 1% in 2020 to 4% this year.

In 2020, in an election held under the strict limits of the coronavirus pandemic and months into a searing national conversation about race after the death of George Floyd and subsequent riots, 72% of voters said racism in policing was a serious issue.

Four years later, that had slipped slightly to 67%.

Meanwhile, confidence in elections ticked up.

In 2020, 84% of voters were confident eligible voters would be able to cast ballots. This year that was 90%.

Amid worries over noncitizen voting, Fox and the AP added a new question this year about confidence that ineligible voters could be kept out of the polling place. Voters were less sure there, with just 68% saying they felt confident in election integrity.