Roxxxanne wrote:I never said "overwhelming majoriity" The fact is that Clinton was counting on the female vote and Obama got 16% more than Clinton, that's a big margin.
This margin you are talking about doesn't matter. What matters is the 5 percentage point margin in the split of the actual female vote. Obama got 35% of this vote; Hillary got 30%. That's roughly an even split. The women's vote will not give Obama the nomination.
Quote:I posted that Obama had gotten the youth vote out and flatulence responded:
Obama did receive 57% of the vote from people younger than 30 and 42% of the vote from 30 to 44 year olds. But people younger than 45 accounted for only 41% of the total electorate. He only got 18% of the vote from people over 65 and people over 65 comprise the largest demographic group in the country. In the country as a whole the old will out-vote the young so Obama's support from the young will get him no where in the long run.
Quote:Take a look at Walter's post above. 17-24 Obama 57% Clinton 10%
People aged 17 to 24 are not automatically 1st time caucus goers.
Take a look at the next to last table for the Democrats. Like I said Obama got only 41% of the 1st time caucus-goers' votes. The "young' and "first time caucus-goers" are not the same demographic. 59% of the people who had never before participated in the Iowa Democratic Caucus did not vote for Obama so if Obama brought these newcomers into the process, he help his opponents as much as he helped himself.
The table showing the percentage of 1st time caucus goers for the Democrats simply says Democrat caucus. It is possible that some of these people who voted in the Democrat Caucus for the 1st time may have voted in a Republican caucus before so they would not be not complete new comers to the process.
Perhaps if you traded some of your silicon for brains, you be able to pay attention to what people here are actually saying.
