fivethirtyeight.com - 11/12/2008
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Comparing exit polls from 2004 and 2008 makes the breadth of Barack Obama's victory clear. Obama received a larger share of the vote than John Kerry among voters of all genders, races, education levels, and income classes, and virtually all religions. The only groups with whom he underperformed ...
bookwormroom.com - 11/12/2008
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bookwormroom.com —
One of the things that this election most
vividly illustrated is that the lockstep political beliefs Democrats...
envision don’t really exist within their own party: Blacks and Hispanics turned out in droves to help power Obama into the White House, but ...
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Michael Giltz: Obama's Win and the Ten Lies The Right Is Spreading About It
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... OBAMA ONLY WON BECAUSE OF THE BLACK VOTE AND THE FRINGE FAR LEFT -- This is an attempt to treat Obama's win as simply identity politics (black people voting for a Party's black nominee because it was the first time they could) rather than a broad mandate from the country as a whole that saw Obama as the best candidate. The truth is that Obama did better than John Kerry in virtually every demographic you can name, including white voters. The only two areas where Obama drew fewer votes than Kerry were the over 65 crowd and gays and lesbians. This was not an eked ...
How whites really voted in 2008
Daily Kos —
... Had Gelman made the same analysis based on this exit poll data, then all the power to him. Nate himself referred to exit poll data when he wanted to compare demo results. And yes, while exit polls have their own margin of errors and sample composition problems, they sure as heck beat anything done over the telephone. If nothing else, sample sizes of about 8,000 per state of confirmed (as opposed to "likely") voters makes them a little better as data tools than ...
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