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California
Polls
California Republican Exit Poll
California Democratic Exit Poll
Religious
demographics chart
Democratic
Primary Results
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2,144,251
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52%
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204
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1,746,013
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42%
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161
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170,467
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4%
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0
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Republican
Primary Results
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994,262
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42%
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149
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807,914
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34%
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6
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274,479
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12%
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0
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116,118
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5%
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0
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100,439
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4%
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0
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Commentary
Democrat
Among Democratic voters who attend worship at all, Clinton won all
categories handily. Only the 28 percent who said they never darken the door
of a place of worship went for Obama, by the narrow margin of 47 percent to
45 percent. Clinton prevailed very strongly among Catholics, 68 percent to
27 percent. This is connected to her strength among Latinos; white
Catholics, who constituted less than a third of the Catholic vote, voted for
Clinton by only 53 percent to 38 percent. Otherwise, she won Protestants by
under 10 percentage points (this group includes most African Americans) and
Jews by only four. Obama won the non-Abrahamic faiths (Hindus, Buddhists,
Sikhs, etc.) by 13 points and those with no religion (21 percent) by seven.
Republican
McCain won all the attendance categories except the more-than-weekly,
which went to Huckabee with 33 percent (Romney and McCain, in second and
third place, got 24 percent and 22 percent respectively. Significantly,
Huckabee actually finished third among evangelicals with 26 percent, as
compared to 27 percent for Romney and 29 percent for McCain. The Huckabee
numbers here are 10 points higher than they were in Arizona, but still
pretty poor—pointing both to the less politicized character of West Coast
evangelicalism and the fact that Huckabee made no effort there (cf. Florida
versus the reset of the South). Otherwise, there little of note. McCain and
Romney split the overall Protestant vote at 37 percent apiece, with Huckabee
trailing at 16 percent. |
