Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumSome Exit Poll Results from SC...
As always take exit polls with a grain of salt:
Todays primary is the first to test the Democratic candidates popularity among a large number of black voters: Preliminary exit poll results indicate that blacks account for six in 10 South Carolina Democratic primary voters today, possibly on pace to break the states record, 55 percent in 2008 more than in any other state that year. Blacks this year made up 13 percent of voters in Nevada, where Clinton won them by an overwhelming 76-22 percent; 2 percent in New Hampshire; and 3 percent in Iowa.
Many more voters here are moderates, nearly four in 10, compared with 26 to 28 percent in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada; and far fewer are liberals, about half, compared with seven in 10 in the previous states. That said, the share of liberals in South Carolina is on pace to set a new high in the state in whats been a record year for ideological polarization.
Seven in 10 in these preliminary results want the next president to continue Barack Obamas policies, a new high this year and a strong group for Clinton in earlier states. Among blacks, support for continuing Obamas policies reaches nearly nine in 10. Previous peak support for continuing Obamas polices was 55 percent in Iowa and 50 percent in Nevada, vs. 40 percent in New Hampshire, where Sanders won on the basis of support from voters seeking a more liberal direction. In South Carolina today just two in 10 want policies more liberal than Obamas. It was 42 percent in New Hampshire.
Clinton isnt having as many problems on the honesty front as shes seen elsewhere. More South Carolina voters think Clinton is honest than say so about Sanders more than seven in 10 in her case vs. more than six in 10 in his. In New Hampshire, by contrast, twice as many saw Sanders as trustworthy than said so about Clinton.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-south-carolina-democratic-primary-exit-poll-analysis/story?id=37241467
book_worm
(15,951 posts)In another resume-related question, more than eight in 10 South Carolina Democratic voters want the next president to be someone with experience in politics rather than someone from outside the political establishment. It was a 70-26 percent split on this question in New Hampshire, where experience voters divided 50-50, while outsider voters went for Sanders by a vast 88-8 percent.
Voters under 30, an overwhelmingly strong group for Sanders in earlier contests, account for slightly more than one in 10 South Carolina voters in preliminary exit poll results. That could end up as a new low this cycle; under-30s accounted for 18 or 19 percent in the three previous states, with more than eight in 10 voting for Sanders.
livetohike
(22,156 posts)Team Hillary .
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)jknudsen
(52 posts)Time is on Bernie's side
riversedge
(70,270 posts)livetohike
(22,156 posts)Embarrassed by your very first post.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)More than eight in 10 trust Clinton to handle race relations, while fewer, more than six in 10, trust Sanders on the issues. Among blacks, trust for Clinton to handle race relations peaks at nine in 10, and trust in Sanders falls to half. Its a concern: nearly half say race relations have gotten worse in the last few years, and eight in 10 say it was an important factor in their vote today.
I'm shocked I tell you. Just shocked.
riversedge
(70,270 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)However, it goes along with some of the other Sanders results: the only one of Sanders' major issues - the economy, healthcare, education and income inequality - that voters think Sanders is better at than Clinton is income inequality. Noun-verb-Wall Street isn't good when the majority thinks your Wall Street position isn't good.
6chars
(3,967 posts)I'd say this favors Hillary
riversedge
(70,270 posts)6chars
(3,967 posts)but that's another issue
Gothmog
(145,479 posts)riversedge
(70,270 posts)they get to know Sanders the less honest they think he is. Interesting
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)the black primary vote is.
Quite differently from all of us excitable white liberals, my thinking is that most black voters know just how hard-won change is and have suspicions about things that simply don't add up.
I'd further guess that they don't think Bernie is fundamentally dishonest or anything - I certainly don't - I just think they are not buying what he is selling.
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)MSMITH33156
(879 posts)won African American voter 84-16, and she even won voters under 45 years of age.