Thursday, November 6, 2008

FiveThirtyEight.com: "Obama outperforms Kerry among virtually all demographics..."

FiveThirtyEight.com's poll-aggregation expert and interpreter Nate Silver describes Obama's superior performance:
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. ...

...Obama markedly overperformed Kerry among parents. In a sense, it was those people who have most reason to be concerned about the future who voted for Obama: people who are young themeslves, or people who have young children at home. ...
Read more and observe FiveThirtyEight's chart, which breaks down the percentage of the electorate that voted Dem in 2004 and in 2008, with respect to an array of categories of personhood.

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