"Some 136.6 million Americans voted -- a 64.1 percent turnout and the highest since 1908. Obama is the first Democrat to win a majority of the popular vote (53 percent) since Jimmy Carter. By sex, BHO's support was 49 percent male and 56 percent female. By ethnic group, his support comprised 41 percent of Whites, 61 percent of Asians, 75 percent of Latinos and 95 percent of Blacks. By age, BHO's largest support demographic was 66 percent of voters under the age of 30. By income, 52 percent of voters with more than $200,000 in annual income voted for Obama. By education, his support came from those without a college degree and those with a post-graduate degree.
So, his victory was largely due to support from non-whites, from those under 30, from those with the lowest income and education, and from a small number of voters at the other end of those spectrums, while those of middle age, income and education tended to support John McCain.
BHO received 76 percent of atheist and agnostic voters.
The Barna Research Group looked at some other interesting characteristics of Obama voters: 57 percent of those who consider themselves "lonely or isolated," 59 percent of those affected by the economic decline in "a major way," and 61 percent of those who claim they are "stressed out" supported BHO."
http://patriotpost.us/
You can get a clearer picture of typical Obama supporters here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1217081mugyear20.html
One thing that is very sad is this statistic from the Patriot Post: "Obama received support from 56 percent of Catholic voters"
Not coincidentally, that inversely corresponds almost perfectly with regular Mass attendance, I believe. In other words, and I think I've seen the statistics that support this, practicing Catholics who attend Mass regularly did not vote for Obama. Those who do not take their faith seriously did vote for him.
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