How accurate exit polls will be this time?
The exit polls: Why Obama won By: David Paul Kuhn Jan 26, 2008 10:54 PM EST Obama won eight in 10 African American voters, with black men and women backing him equally. Photo: AP SAVE Digg del.icio.us Technorati reddit SHARE COMMENT PRINT EMAIL RECOMMEND It’s the demographics, stupid: The black candidate won the black vote. The white woman won white women. The white man won white men. Iowa, where Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois won women and whites, seems a world away. The Democratic coalition now seems to be split by little more than the color and gender of its voters. It has been decades since the political left has faced such crass intraparty demographic divides. Still, exit polls conducted by The Associated Press and the television networks reveal that Obama’s success in South Carolina may have been because of blacks but it was not limited to them. He won eight in 10 African Americans. But he also won independents, moderates, youth — and 27 percent of white men and 22 percent of whit
