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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (946)	11/12/2008 10:18:51 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

Re: "The exit poll Penn cites revealed that those over $200K represented 6% of the 124 million voters, or about 7.4 million voters total. Obama beat McCain 52%-46% in this group." Exactly the same percentage breakdown as that of Obama's over-all win in the national popular vote, right? (That's alright though I suppose... McCain still won "seniors over 72" however.) <g> I think that the POINT Penn was making when he cited this statistic was that this (annual income over $200K) sector of the population has been won by the GOP candidates during the last several cycles --- by about the same, or even greater margins. So, his point is that the margin here has flipped... so if the Dem candidate won this demographic sector by +6 this time, in past elections the Dem candidate would have lost by 6 (making this year a 12 pt. turn-around) or even lost by much more....