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Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton take the stage before a Democratic presidential primary debate on Feb. 11 in Milwaukee. | AP Photo Exit polls: Democratic voters split on supporting eventual nominee

WARNING: Early exit polls are incomplete, and they should be interpreted with caution. They only include interviews with voters who cast ballots earlier in the day, which could underrepresent certain groups. And the networks don’t release full results before polls have closed statewide; they only tease out certain numbers, some of which will shift significantly in the final survey.

Democratic primary voters casting their ballot Tuesday are largely split on whether they would support the opposite candidate if their choice is not the eventual nominee, according to NBC News' exit polling. On the Republican side, a majority would be satisfied with Donald Trump, but another third said they would consider supporting a third-party candidate.

Asked whether they would be satisfied with Bernie Sanders as the nominee, 50 percent of Hillary Clinton voters said they would be satisfied, with 46 percent indicating dissatisfaction. Posed the same question, 47 percent of Sanders voters said they would be satisfied with Clinton as the nominee, while 51 percent said they would be dissatisfied.

In the event of a Clinton-Trump general-election matchup, 57 percent of Republican primary voters surveyed Tuesday said they would go with the party's nominee, while 37 percent said they would not rule out backing another candidate.

Slightly more than half of Ohio Democratic voters (53 percent) said free trade costs American workers jobs, ABC News reported, higher than the share who said the same in North Carolina, Missouri and Illinois. That finding could portend well for Sanders, who has made the issue of free trade front-and-center in his argument in the rust-belt states.

More than eight-in-10 Florida Democratic voters (83 percent) said they had made up their mind about whom to support earlier than last week, while 16 percent said they had decided in the last seven days, CNN reported. In Missouri, 22 percent said they decided in the last week while 77 percent said they had decided before that time. Roughly seven-in-10 Democratic voters in North Carolina and Ohio said their minds were made up before last week.

On the issues, 40 percent of Missouri Democratic voters called the economy and jobs the most important issue, while 28 percent cited income inequality and 24 percent health care. The results were similar among North Carolina Democrats.

As far as whether they want the next president to continue Barack Obama's policies, 48 percent of Ohio Democrats said they hoped for more of the same, while 34 percent said they hoped the next president would be more liberal and 12 percent less.