Take away the largest black demographic and Obama still wins

NJSecularist

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Sat Jan-26-08 10:17 PM
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Take away the largest black demographic and Obama still wins

98% of the precints reporting

Obama - 289,126
Hillary - 138, 831

If you take away 19% of the votes from the largest African American voting block - African Americans aged 45-59 - and gave them all to Hillary, he still beats Hillary by a large margin.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/index.html#SCDEM
New Obama totals with 19% of the Black 45-59 vote removed and added to Hillary - 245, 819
New Hillary totals with all of the 19% Black 45-59 vote on her side - 182, 228

Hillary got massacred tonight. Any way you look at it, even if Obama recieved only 50-60% of the black vote, he still would have beat Hillary by a wide margin.

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