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Pew President Says Obama Lost NH Due to Race
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Jan 10, 2008 09:07pm |
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| Media | News Service - Reuters |
| News Date | Friday, January 11, 2008 03:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Andrew Knoupt, the President of the Pew Center, attributes Obama's loss in New Hampshire to race and bigotry, not women. His piece is about why the pollsters got it wrong, but he's not too subtle:
"Poorer, less well-educated white people refuse surveys more often than affluent, better-educated whites. Polls generally adjust their samples for this tendency. But here’s the problem: these whites who do not respond to surveys tend to have more unfavorable views of blacks than respondents who do the interviews."
What he's really claiming is that white people who make less than $50k a year and didn't attend college are bigoted.
"Mrs. Clinton beat Mr. Obama by 12 points (47 percent to 35 percent) among those with family incomes below $50,000. By contrast, Mr. Obama beat Mrs. Clinton by five points (40 percent to 35 percent) among those earning more than $50,000."
"There was an education gap, too. College graduates voted for Mr. Obama 39 percent to 34 percent; Mrs. Clinton won among those who had never attended college, 43 percent to 35 percent."
As to why this didn't happen in Iowa, he only says:
"My guess is that Mr. Obama may have posed less of a threat to white voters in Iowa because he wasn’t yet the front-runner. Caucuses are also plainly different from primaries." |
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