On Jun 9, 2008, at 5:32 PM, jon louis mann wrote: >> Is the implication that voters must either vote for Obama or be >> bigots, iow, the only reason anyone would not vote for Obama is >> because he is black and they are racist? >> . . . ronn! :) > > i am voting for obama BECAUSE he is black; many more will vote for > mc cain to prevent a black man from winning...
Here's an interesting Flash visualization of voting in the Democratic primaries by gender, race, age, income, and education (unfortunately, only one at a time): http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/politics/20080603_MARGINS_GRAPHIC/margins.swf Or http://url.ie/fim As you step through each of the demographic groups, squares representing each of the fifty states shift left or right and stack up to represent each state's relative support for Obama vs. Clinton. As you step through income levels, you see a slight skew towards Clinton at the lower levels, towards Obama at the top, but all of this happens in pretty much normal bell-curve near the center of the graph. Same thing with education: less leaned towards Clinton, more towards Obama. The most striking thing of the whole visualization comes when you click "Blacks" and the whole chart -- all fifty states -- suddenly slams itself against the Obama side of the chart. It would seem that the group that is most voting by race is blacks, at least in the data gathered and displayed here. Gender didn't even come close. Age, income and education level showed small, but interesting moves, and the "Whites" chart looked pretty much like any other. Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
