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--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] white working class voters
> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 2:00 PM
> [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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