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- From: aaiken@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Andrew C. Aiken)
- Subject: The Mondale-Clinton Coalition
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:37:40 GMT
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- According to Dan Rather on Election Night, Bill Clinton
- had "broken up the Reagan Coalition." Did he really? Some interesting
- numbers shed light on this question.
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- Mondale % Clinton %
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- Total Voting Pop. 40 43
- Republicans 7 10
- Independents 36 38
- Democrats 74 77
- Liberals 70 68
- Moderates 47 48
- Conservatives 17 18
- Union Households 53 55
- White Born-Again Chr. 22 23
- Catholics 45 44
- Black Voters 90 82 (Interesting!)
- White Voters 35 39
- Hispanic Voters 62 62
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- (New York Times exit polling)
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- In most cases, these numbers are statistically the same. Bill
- Clinton won fair and square, but he did so, apparently, by holding on to
- the Democratic base, letting Perot and Bush split the other voters.
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- Andrew Aiken
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