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Obama's win: Moderates, youth, more
The Swamp —
... Democrat Barack Obama won the White House "on the strength of a substantial electoral shift toward the Democratic Party and by winning a number of key groups in the middle of the electorate,'' the Pew Research Center reports today, based on exit polling. ...
Big City Barack
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
One nugget from Pew Research that I'd missed earlier: Barack Obama performed 9 points better than John Kerry among urban whites. This was not by any means the most important factor in his election, but it helps to explain the large improvements that the Democratic ticket made in states like Colorado and Nevada, where a great deal of the population is concentrated in Denver and Las Vegas, respectively, and why Republicans were at best able to tread water by targeting the rural areas of Pennsylvania, while Obama waltzed his way to winning large majorities of white ...
Conservative Wishful Thinking
Daily Kos —
... the election, Sarah Palin and the future of the electorate. Most of the wishful thinking by other conservatives is just nonsense. The recognition of the electoral vote shellacking, the dancing in the streets all over the world over a Republican loss The festive scenes of liberation that Dick Cheney had once imagined for Iraq were finally taking place — in cities all over America - Frank Rich the refusal to appreciate the across the board nature of the win, and above all, the ignoring of the demographic ...
More On Exit Polls and Realignment
Daily Kos —
... One can therefore argue that the improvements for the Democrats in the midwest and west, among young voters and Latinos, and among women were potentially a realignment whereas the GOP strength among older Southern white Republicans make this less of a win than it really is. ...
On CNN Reliable Sources, Sarah 'Was a Real Drag on the Ticket'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... There are polls and then there are polls. Fouhy could have mentioned the exit poll cited by the Pew Research Center: "Yet those who cited Palin's selection as a factor in their vote -- 60% of all voters -- favored McCain by 56% to 43%." Or she could have noted the ...
Pam’s Soused Bender [Dan Collins]
protein wisdom —
... that any of the attendees of these events have any political-philosophical reasons for opposing Obama’s policies. Any reasons that they may give are presented merely to give color to the ugly racism that inspires them, in truth. Forget that business about Obama trebling the national debt, the lies about those earning less than $250k seeing not a dime in new taxation, or the exponential growth of the public sector, or the unprecedented government intrusion into the private sector, or the polling data that showed that race was a bigger factor among Obama voters : all red ...
Southern Baggage
The American Prospect Articles —
... toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he is African American." As their numbers dwindle and their influence wanes, those white Americans whose politics is animated mostly by their continued embrace of white supremacy find refuge in the Republican Party. As they and their views become more marginal, they have grown increasingly desperate and vocal. In the 2008 presidential election, only 7 percent of white voters said that race was an important factor in how they voted, and they went big -- 66 percent -- for McCain. The good news, of ...
Oprah and Sarah: BFFs!?
The New Republic blogs —
... --and older white folks weren't exactly Obama's demographic sweet spot. More broadly, Oprah already divides America roughly in half along gender lines. (More than three-quarters of her audience is female.) Drawing all women inside her comforting apron (while taking aim at badly behaving men) is key to her whole glamorous-yet-relatable-big-sister schtick. If she starts mucking around in partisan politics, she's going to wind up too polarizing to continue her march toward world domination. I'm setting my DVR now.
Two Out Of Five Ain't Good
The New Republic blogs —
... [conservative] ideas, simply because they are not liberal ideas and must, therefore, be wrong, and so on.) Let us go through these five factual assertions. There are a couple true things here. A majority of American workers do work in white-collar fields, though this is not exactly synonymous with affluence. A majority also own their own homes, though the same caveat applies. Did Obama perform as well with voters earning more than $200,000 a year as those earning under $50,000? Not even close . He won voters earning over $200,000 by 6 points, and those earning under $50,000 ...
