Overwhelming support and record turnout among black voters and her best showing to date among whites gave Hillary Clinton a powerful victory in Saturday’s Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina. CONT. Gary Langer, with Gregory Holyk & Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, ABC News Read more »
Hillary Clinton’s Winning Numbers in South Carolina Suggest Sweep in South
After winning South Carolina’s Democratic primary eight years ago, Senator Barack Obama declared that “after four great contests, we have the most votes, the most delegates, and have the broadest coalition for change.” Tonight it is his former opponent, Hillary Clinton, who can now make the same claim. … The […] Read more »
With All Eyes On Trump, Clinton Is Winning The Democratic Nomination
… According to the South Carolina exit poll, Sanders lost black voters 16 percent to 84 percent. That doomed him in a contest in which 62 percent of voters were black. … Sanders’s loss of momentum couldn’t have come at a worse time for his campaign. There are six Super […] Read more »
South Carolina Democratic Primary Exit Poll Analysis
Today’s primary is the first to test the Democratic candidates’ popularity among a large number of black voters: Preliminary exit poll results indicate that blacks account for six in 10 South Carolina Democratic primary voters today, possibly on pace to break the state’s record, 55 percent in 2008 – more […] Read more »
Margin of Victory Will Matter as Clinton Counts on Black Voters in South Carolina
After three contests, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders by the slimmest of margins in the Democratic primary, 51 to 50 in delegates. But she hasn’t yet tapped into what is probably her greatest strength: black voters. CONT. Nate Cohn, New York Times Read more »
Is Hillary losing the women’s vote? Nope. Here’s how the gender gap really works.
Is a gender gap between women’s and men’s votes helping Hillary Clinton win in the Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses? Media reports on this have misconstrued exactly how the gender gap works. For instance, news outlets are generally reporting that Clinton won the women’s vote in Iowa and Nevada but […] Read more »