A quick (okay, maybe not that quick...) note about the Wisconsin primary -- have you noticed the huge differential between the number of Republicans who voted and the number of Democrats? I know the GOP race is supposed to be over, but DAMN, it's more than 2 to 1! Anyhoo, to the exit polls!
On these Barack Obama ran the demographic table tonight, winning the race by about 55 percent to Hillary's 43 percent, and carrying every major demographic, including women. Here's the way CNN calls it:
Voters who cared most about the economy (43% of respondents): Obama - 55% Clinton - 43%
Voters who said U.S. trade creates a loss of American jobs (70%) Obama - 54% Clinton - 43%
Barack fought Hillary to a draw on one her core constituencies:
Union households - Clinton - 50% Obama - 49%
and, not good for Hil, he beat her with women: Obama - 51% Clinton - 49%
Obama apparently won the overall white vote by a slim margin, (51-53% of the vote if I'm not mistaken) and he clobbered Hillary with a constituency she has never done too well with:
White men Obama - 62% Clinton - 36%
Hillary did manage to hold two of her core constituencies, but barely:
White women Clilnton - 53% Obama 45%
White voters with incomes uner $50K Clinton - 51% Obama - 48%
While Barack held his core income group:
White voters with incomes over $50K Obama - 56% Clinton - 48%
Barack cleaned Hillary's clock with younger voters (49 and under): Obama - 64% Clinton - 39%http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
The exit poll included a high college educated voter roll of 72% Obama - 59% Clinton - 39%
Apparently, Obama and Hillary split less educated whites about evenly, and they also split voters with household incomes under $50,000. Not good for Hil.
Self-identified Democrats were basically a draw Obama - 50% Clinton - 49%
But with Independents (27% of those polled), it wasn't even close: Obama - 63% Clinton - 36%
The exit polls showed that more voters thought Hillary had unfairly attacked Obama than thought the reverse, and according to NBC, some two-thirds of voters for whom negative campaigning was an important factor voted for Barack.
Wisconsin voters thought him to be the most electable, too, 63% to 37%.
According to NBC News, Obama also beat Hillary on the three key issues in the race, Iraq, healthcare (Hillary's signature issue) and the economy.
Hillary did hold senior voters and Catholics, but there just weren't enough of them to help her win, especially given reports of record turnout by young voters.
//Hillary trouble alert! The question for Hillary is, what message can she use to get her three cores (as weak as she's holding them): seniors, catholics and white women, in Texas and Ohio (Ohio being the more possible. Not sure she can do it with the crushing loss of momentum coming out of tonight.//
Two very uplifting notes that cause me to echo Michelle Obama's renewed -- and yes, that's what she meant -- pride in this country:
Eighty-two percent of respondents said the candidate's gender was not important to them and 86 percent said race was not important. advertisement
About 88 percent of the poll's respondents were white, 57 percent were female and 43 percent were male.
You've gotta love it (unless you're a throwback.) As ABC News notes: And yet, Obama won it. Handily.
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