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Tuesday March 25, 2008
Clinton's Huge Lead Among White Churchgoers
Fresh evidence of Hillary Clinton's huge lead among white religious voters over Barack Obama from the Mother of all Public Opinion Polls, Gallup:
While the candidates run about evenly among Jewish Democrats, Clinton does better among Catholic Democratic voters, leading Obama by nearly 20 percentage points, 56% to 37%, in the March data among this group. Clinton outpolls Obama among both white Catholics (57% to 34%) and nonwhite Catholics (53% to 42%). The latter group largely comprises Hispanics, a core Clinton support group.Democratic voters who are Protestant (including those who say they are "Christian" but provide no specific denomination) divide about equally between Obama (47%) and Clinton (44%). But the overall Protestant numbers hide a deep racial gap, with Clinton leading by more than 20 points among white Protestant Democratic voters (56% to 34%) and Obama holding an even larger 45-point lead among nonwhite Protestant Democratic voters (70% to 25%).
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"Clinton leading by more than 20 points among white Protestant Democratic voters (56% to 34%)"
When comparing W. to Wild Bill, I used to say: "When Clinton lied nobody died." W. and his white Evangelical supporters needed a second term even though there were no WMDs in Iraq. They got it and we all got quagmire.
As a white, former Evangelical, I just gotta know: "What the heck is wrong with my demographic?"
It's come out barely in peeps with the corporate media that Hillary actually supported NAFTA. Contrary to her claims in Ohio and Texas that she wasn't comfortable with it - the just released Clinton White House records show she actually lobbied for it. Yeah, and a lot of white folks lost work.
Now she's lied about being under sniper fire with Chelsea in Bosnia.
Do George W. and the Hill-Bill squad really just get something that white protestants don't? Namely that white protestants are suckers.
Posted by: Brian Horan | March 26, 2008 8:09 AM
White church goers needs to pray more. We are allowing the world to frame our thinking.
Posted by: Lj | March 26, 2008 2:07 PM
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