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- From: patm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Pat Murphy)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:28:13 GMT
- Subject: Re: The Mondale-Clinton Coalition
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- In alt.rush-limbaugh, aaiken@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Andrew C. Aiken) writes:
- > 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.
- > Mondale % Clinton %
- > --------------------- ----------- -----------
- > Total Voting Pop. 40 43
- > Republicans 7 10
- [some numbers deleted]
- > Black Voters 90 82 (Interesting!)
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > White Voters 35 39
- > Hispanic Voters 62 62
- >
- > (New York Times exit polling)
- >
- > 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.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- not soooo interesting, as you yourself point out!
- most blacks are (1) disenfranchised w/ this political
- system; (2) disenchanted by the democrats; and (3)
- fed up with the government... surely in an election
- year with a viable independent, you're gonna get the
- numbers listed here.
-
- >
- >
- > Andrew Aiken
- >
- >
-
- peace to all,
- pjm.
-