While the Clinton machine will do it’s best to down play Barack Obama’s victory last night, a look at the exit polls shows that this win was about more than just appealing to black voters.
A few key points:
- Barack Obama won in nearly every significant demographic category.
- He won every age group except people over 60
- He won the votes of white voters under 30
- He split the white vote with Clinton and Edwards almost evenly
- And, he tied Hillary for the white male vote
In other words, this was a broad-based victory, quite unlike Jesse Jackson’s victories in 1984 and 1988. Let’s hope the media doesn’t let the Clinton’s get away with asserting otherwise.
