Letters to the Editor
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Obama's demographics
"If he keeps losing core Democratic constituencies by double digits in big-state primaries, I'd call it a flawed campaign. When, when is he going to make a serious effort to reach out to Latinos, working-class Dems, older Dems? Does he want their votes at all?"
I'm still not convinced these demographics really apply to this campaign. We see it somewhat playing out in some states, then in others it's not as obvious. Clearly the african american vote had an effect in LA and SC, but in other states? What about Washington state where I live? They explain it because we are all college educated and higher income, but the entire state but one district went to Obama. If you've ever been in eastern washington, you really don't get the impression that they are all stock owning, starbucks drinking, SUV driving people. We even joke sometimes that we should succeed from eastern washington so they can vote for republicans and we can vote for democrats.
As the media is trying to figure out who's voting for who, they might just be missing the mark all together. A quick exit poll analysis doesn't really get the full picture. What we really need is a nice full scale analysis by someone that actually knows how to read the data objectively to do a study. I'd really like to see those results.
I really hope I am right honestly. I'm getting tired of pundits putting us in these little sub categories like we all are for or against one another - within the same party! It would be great if in this election that, that categorization has lost most of it's relevance.