Highlights of exit poll results from Indiana

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VOTERS’ DEMOGRAPHICS: Marion County, the state’s most populous county and with a large black population. Voters gave Obama 71 percent of their vote and Clinton 29 percent.
Southern Indiana: Voters gave Clinton 66 percent and Obama 34 percent.
Northwestern Indiana: Voters gave Obama 55 percent and Clinton 45 percent.
Northern Indiana: Voters gave Clinton 51 percent Obama 49 percent.
East-central Indiana: Voters gave Clinton 60 percent and Obama 40 percent.
RURAL VS. URBAN: Seventy percent of rural residents who voted favored Clinton, while 30 percent voted for Obama. In the state’s suburbs, Clinton won 54 percent of the vote, while Obama got 46 percent. Obama was favored in cities with more than 50,000 residents, getting 62 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 31 percent.
RACE: Six in 10 whites voted for Clinton, while nine in 10 blacks favored Obama.
VOTERS’ AGES: About six in 10 voters under age 30 favored Obama, while Clinton won about seven of 10 of the votes of the 65 and over crowd.
The preliminary results were from exit polling by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for The Associated Press and television networks. There were 1,738 voters in the Indiana Democratic primary who were interviewed, for a margin of sampling error or plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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15 Responses to “Highlights of exit poll results from Indiana”

  1. Crawford says on May 7th, 2008 at 7:21 am :

    This is among Republicans.

  2. Nell says on May 7th, 2008 at 8:11 am :

    I think he was being facetious. But I can imagine it being hard to tell the difference between fact and fiction, considering what you were taught in government school.

  3. Misti says on May 7th, 2008 at 9:02 am :

    Lotta good that will do… I expect the results to not match exit polls at all.

  4. Giffard says on May 7th, 2008 at 9:52 am :

    Those numbers changed. When I commented McCain was at 29% and Paul was at 27%.

  5. Neville says on May 7th, 2008 at 10:43 am :

    wow, what planet are you from.

  6. Laila says on May 7th, 2008 at 11:33 am :

    Early indicators say Hillary is up by 4, but poll numbers on what drove the decision making of Pennsylvanians show good signs for Obama. This thread will be updated every 30 minutes until 3 AM Eastern

  7. Algar says on May 7th, 2008 at 12:24 pm :

    Uh, you misread that one, dude. John McCain pulled 27% of 18-24 year olds. Paul came in distant second with 19%.

  8. Verna says on May 7th, 2008 at 1:15 pm :

    http://reddit.com/info/6gr4m/comments/

  9. Charlie says on May 7th, 2008 at 2:05 pm :

    Freedom to be a racist? Responsibility for writing racist newsletters?

  10. Rebecca says on May 7th, 2008 at 2:56 pm :

    62% of half the country.

  11. Shania says on May 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm :

    no like freedom and responsibility.

  12. Silas says on May 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pm :

    http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#NHMuch better.

  13. Jordan says on May 7th, 2008 at 5:27 pm :

    States rights to segregate.

  14. Aric says on May 7th, 2008 at 6:18 pm :

    35% of polls reporting and Racist Ron is almost 600 votes behind the mayor.