“Why Can’t Obama Close the Deal? Muahahaha!”*
November 6th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
By pandora
Nate Silver breaks down the difference between 2004 and 2008. Obama improved over Kerry in almost every category except +65 and gays and lesbians. The youth vote rocked. So did… wait for it… those making over 200,000.00!
Complete Chart after the jump.
*Massive h/t to The Jed Report for the title of this post!
Comment by delawaredem on 6 November 2008 at 6:58 pm:
I slightly edited one sentence, because originally it sounded like McCain actually won Gays and Lesbians. Rather, Obama won 70% of them, while Kerry won 77% of them.
I wonder what the cause of that was.
Comment by pandora on 6 November 2008 at 6:59 pm:
Thanks, DD. That puzzled me as well.
Comment by jason330 on 6 November 2008 at 8:09 pm:
Obama did not campaign against the CA anti-gay marriage proposition.
Comment by jason330 on 6 November 2008 at 8:10 pm:
Single issue voters…sheesh.
Comment by Joanne Christian on 6 November 2008 at 8:38 pm:
Prop 8 being concurrent w/ the election, and no real word on it from Obama AND
Wasn’t Kerry’s first wife a lesbian, who spoke highly of him?