Exit Polls: Obama With Broad VA Support

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Exit polls in Virginia and Maryland show that Barack Obama is drawing broad support from whites, blacks, men and women in the presidential race against Hillary Rodham Clinton.In both states, the Illinois senator is splitting the white vote evenly with Clinton, according to final figures from exit polls Tuesday in Virginia and preliminary data from surveys of Maryland voters. For the bulk of this year’s presidential contests, whites have been tilting toward Clinton, giving her one of her primary sources of support. Obama has overwhelming support from blacks, getting nine in 10 of their votes in both states.

Obama also is getting about six in 10 votes from women in both states, another group that has been at the heart of the New York senator’s support. And he is receiving two-thirds of the votes of men in both states. He is doing far better among them than usual.

On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee got nearly two-thirds of the votes of Virginia’s white, born-again and evangelical Christians, and more than half in Maryland. The party’s front-runner, John McCain, got overwhelming margins from those who are not born again and evangelical Christians.

[via AP]

Bill Jefferson @ February 12, 2008