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Thread #101088   Message #2280495
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
05-Mar-08 - 03:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
What seems to have swung it for Clinton in Texas is that while Obama came in first among the men, Clinton came in first among the women - and there were a great deal more women than men voting in the Democratic primary - 53% women voters and only 43% men,(whereas in the Republican vote it was pretty even - 49% women, 51% men).

And the same seems to have been the case in Ohio, where there were 59% women and only 41% men Democratic voters. (Whereas among Republicans it was 54% men,and only 46% women.) And once again Obama got a majority of the men voters in the Democratic primary.

It rather looks in both cases as if a lot of women who might have been expected to vote Republican came out to vote for Clinton. Interesting.

(Figures taken from this site, CNN Election Center.)