Edwards Beats Hillary Among White Voters

[annabanana]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_rob_kall_080127_edwards_beats_hillar.htm

Taking the exit polls that CNN has posted for the South Carolina Democratic primary, Obama pulled 24% of the non-black vote, which made up about 45% of the democratic votes cast in SC.

On a day when Edwards supporters are feeling disappointed and dejected there's a bit of good news.

Nobody has mentioned that John Edwards came in second among non-black voters, pulling about 5% more than Hillary Clinton.

OpEdNews did a statistical analysis of the exit poll data CNN reported here, looking at the vote by race and age chart. We found that, combining the age ranges, Edwards pulled 51.1% and Hillary pulled 48.9% of the non-black voters who did not vote for Obama. The numbers are close, but since these are exit polls, with a much bigger sample size, they mean something.

[thunder rising]

1. Picking over the bones are we...let's see that was 54% to whatever was left over.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Women have never voted as a bloc for female candidates. nt

[FarCenter]

3. She reminds white men of all those affirmative action white women managers

Hillary has an uncanny knack for reminding white men of all those under-qualified, over-promoted, affimative action white women managers that they worked for circa 1975-1995.

The animosity is huge and deeply felt.

She probably evokes a similar reaction from blacks, who started to benefit from affirmative action in the early '70s before it was co-opted by white women. Black men and black families were particularly hurt, since management then went on to favor the black women over men in order to get "two-fers" to better their statistics.

Now that Clintons' campaign is taking on the flavor of an extra-constitutional restoration of the Bill Clinton presidency, it starts to remind men of him.

While men were being sent to sensitivity training and treading carefully in order not to be accused of sexual harrassment charges, the phony hypocrite was getting hummers in the Oval Office.

[jackson_dem]

5. Which is why Hillary beat Edwards among white men in Nevada and New Hampshire?

It is funny that whenever Edwards does well some folks like to attribute it all to bigotry.

[Captain Hilts]

7. No, but many men associate female authority with mothers and elementary school teachers. nt

[sunonmars]

4. I'm telling you this is an anomally local to South Carolina

Think about it. Huge AA population, Black candidate who black people think has a chance.

Local boy Edwards, gets large white vote. He won SC in 2004.

It wasnt hard to figure out where things were going to lie, the rest of the country will not be like South Carolina.

[jackson_dem]

6. If Edwards can do this well in some other states among whites he can win states

Hopefully he keeps this up with whites, improves among blacks, holds even with Obama among Latinos. If he can do this well among whites he can win states like Oklahoma, Kansas, and North Dakota where there is a very tiny black population (demographics matter as we saw last night. Why do you think Obama is focusing on Super Tuesday states with large black populations?).