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Primary Results:
Republican primary
(no caucus)
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709,477
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51%
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121
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523,554
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38%
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16
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69,954
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5%
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0
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Uncommitted
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17,668
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1%
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0
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Democrat primary
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1,459,814
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51%
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69
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1,358,785
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47%
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62
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*The
results of the Democratic Caucus are not yet official.
Commentary
Democrat
Obama won Protestants (including Other Christians) vote by a modest
margin, 52 percent to 46 percent. He also won nearly two-thirds of the
Others and 57 percent of the Nones. But although all of those constituted 64
percent of the Democratic electorate, the margins were not enough to offset
the Catholic vote, two-thirds of which went to Clinton. Less than a quarter
of Catholic voters were white; 58 percent of them chose Clinton—one point
lower than the percentage of white Protestants who went for her. In a word,
the Latino Catholic vote going for Clinton approached 70 percent.
Republican
Among the attendance categories, McCain won the Monthlies and less by
over 30 percentage points, the Weeklies by over 20. Huckabee won only the
More-than-weeklies, and by a big margin: 60 percent to 33 percent. This is
an expression of his base of support in the frequent-attending portion of
the evangelical community. Huckabee won all evangelicals by the narrower
margin of 49 percent to 42 percent. If Catholics were bothered by Pastor
John Hagee’s endorsement of McCain, their voting didn’t show it. They
preferred McCain 59 percent to 25 percent. (Protestants—including Other
Christians—split 49-42 in his favor.)
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