Excerpted from
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/exit.polls/
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While Obama will be the nation’s first black president, John McCain would have been the oldest person ever elected to the nation’s highest office.
Race played less of a role in the election than age
The only age group where McCain prevailed was 65 and over, and that by just a 10-percentage-point margin, 54 percent to 44 percent, the exit polls showed.
Minorities went heavily into the Obama camp. Blacks, 96 percent Obama to 3 percent McCain; Latinos, 67 percent Obama to 30 percent McCain;
Obama did well with Latinos because they appear to disapprove of President Bush’s job performance more than the rest of the country,
About 80 percent of Latinos give Bush negative marks, while 72 percent of all Americans do, exit polling showed.
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Ken’s Take:
(1) Interesting that 93% of blacks voted for Obama because he was — on his record and positions — the better candidate. But, 54% of old people voted for McCain just because he was old. Huh ?
(2) McCain put his political career on the line pushing for comprehensive immigration reform (i.e. amnesty). Which, incidentally, Bush supported. Obama stayed out of the fray. Yet, Hispanics rejected McCain 2 to 1. Gotta feel a bit sorry for the guy.
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November 7, 2008 at 7:00 pm |
Race not an issue ? Did Obama get 96 % of the black vote because they believed he was the better candidate ? I don’t think so !
November 8, 2008 at 9:25 pm |
The Democrats always get the black vote at a rate of 80 – 90%, so that is a non issue. Considering the black vote is usually less than 15% the entire electorate, I wonder why the focus is on race. FYI, the people that campaigned the hardest for Obama were not black.