My support for John McCain puts me in the majority
By a margin of 3:1 military voters support John McCain over Barack Obama. In only one demographic does Obama lead: black military members. McCain leads every other group. Overwhelmingly.
Officers and enlisted troops, active-duty members and reservists, those who have served in combat and those who haven’t, all backed McCain by large margins, to about the same extent they supported President Bush four years ago.
White: 76 - 17
Hispanic: 63 - 27
Enlisted: 67 - 24
Officer: 70 - 22
Men: 70 - 22
Women: 53 - 36
It’s a good thing that the military in Iraq pushed voter registration so hard. It’s an overwhelmingly McCain-supporting group that is under-represented in most polling methodologies.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:55 am
It’s interesting watching the media dance around the issue of race in polling. The media seems to focus heavily on speculating whether whites will vote based on racial biases while completely ignoring the glaring obvious: the only demographic illustrating a vote based on race is the black vote.
Among blacks and whites polled, whites show a closer to even split between the white and black candidates for President. Blacks are no where near split between the black and white candidate with more than 90% polled saying they prefer the black candidate. If the white vote were 90% for the white guy, racism is all we’d be talking about.
Ed: I agree that it’s odd. The evidence indicates that Barack Obama has gained far more votes by virtue of being black than he has lost . . . and yet he should still be leading by a whole lot more.