The Other Race Gap
Posted on March 12, 2008 at 9:31 am by Steve Lombardo
While Barack Obama handily won the Mississippi primary, it is notable that white voters–who represented 48% of Democratic primary voters–only gave him 26% of the vote. Clinton winning nearly three-quarters of the white vote is not good news for Obama as Pennsylvania looms. He will need to perform much better among whites to win there. In fact, this was his worst performance among white voters since he won just 16% of the white vote in Arkansas on February 5th.
Compare this to Iowa where he won 38% of the nearly all-white vote (a 9% margin over Clinton) and you see a potential problem for Obama.
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