Generational revolt vs. Religious revolt

CNN: January 3, 2008
Schneider: Generational revolt vs. Religious revolt

(CNN) — When it comes to the winners of both party's caucuses tonight, it's an age revolt for Democrats versus a religious revolt for Republicans.

The exit polling shows an enormous generational divide between supporters of Obama and Clinton. Fifty-seven percent of those under the age of 30 went for the Illinois Democrat. But Obama won significantly smaller proportions of each successive age group. Forty-two percent of 30-44 year-olds went for Obama. That number drops to 21 percent among 41-64 year olds, and only 18 percent among voters 65 and over.

On the Republican side, exit polling shows a great divide between those voters who highly valued a candidate's religious values and those who did not. Huckabee won 56 percent of those who said religious values matter a great deal. That number drops to 30 percent who say religion somewhat matters, 15 percent who say religion doesn't matter much, and only 5 percent among those who say religion does not matter at all.

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73 percent of those between 65 and 74 voted in 2004.

(Let's not let Clinton off the hook for this, too, but she's done it in a more cautious way.) If these two winners of tonight actually became the standard bearers, there'd be more godcrap slathered around than you could ever believe, and the choice will be clear: Senator "Too Much Jesus" or Governor "Nothing But Jesus".

There are many odd realignments to be read into this when looked at enough: the Republican with the most liberal social platforms won handily, and the Democrat who charted the middle course of the three major contenders won.