ajb
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« on: April 12, 2012, 08:25:04 PM » |
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It's worth remembering that Obama lost college-educated whites in NC in 2008, 61-38. The thing is, that's good enough in a state where the electorate was 72% white, 23% black, and 6% everything else.
If you compare NC and SC, they're quite similar in terms of racial distribution, and Obama did about as well with white college graduates in SC, losing them 68-32. The difference is with non-college educated whites, whom Obama lost 67-33 in NC, and 78-21 in SC. College-educated whites are also a slightly higher share of the population in NC, at 41% as opposed to 37% in SC, but the relatively better performance among non college-educated whites in NC is crucial, too.
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