[lbo-talk] white working class voters

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 5 12:00:50 PST 2008


[excerpts from the state-by-state analyses - looks like the white working class is more Rep in the South]

<http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Vote2008/Story?id=6189129&page=1>

VIRGINIA

Working Class: Working class voters--those with annual family incomes under $50,000--voted 62 percent to 37 percent for Obama. But white working class voters voted 57 percent to 42 percent for McCain, little different from whites overall. Working class voters comprised about 30 of all voters in Virginia.

INDIANA

Working Class: The race is also competitive thanks to working class white voters, a group that many speculated would not look kindly on Obama. Exit polls suggest Obama pulled to a tie among this group, after losing this group by double digits in the previous five elections. In terms of GOTV efforts, the polls give evidence of the Democrats' unusual effort this year in Indiana: 37 percent of voters say they have been contacted by the Obama campaign, compared to 22 percent who had been contacted by the McCain campaign.

OHIO

Working Class: White voters who earn less than $50,000 a year were a weak group for Obama in the Democratic primary, but he turned them around in the general election. They made up 34 percent of the vote -- their smallest recorded proportion since the exit polls began measuring this in 1984 and they voted for Obama over McCain 52-46 percent.



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