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Tonya
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Though I’m totally elated for Hillary Clinton (go girl ), I’m mad as hell at the Black misleadership class. Them dumb asses blew a sure thing, and they should catch hell and ALL the blame for it.
Interviews with Democratic caucus-goers indicated that Clinton fashioned her victory by winning about half the votes cast by whites, and two-thirds support from Hispanics, many members of the union that endorsed Obama. He won about 80 percent of the black vote.
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Tonya
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Why, you ask? Cuz they cried racism when there was absolutely no evidence to back up their case....And the stakes were too high for such a lamebrain knee-jerk reaction. I mean, did ANYBODY but them NOT KNOW how that strategy was gonna turn out?? Nope! And so for that kind of ••••-up, errr-last one of them ought to be FIRED!!!
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Tonya
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Women Key for Clinton in Nevada
By ALAN FRAM and MIKE MOKRZYCKI – 1 hour ago
Whites and women helped Hillary Rodham Clinton to victory while blacks overwhelmingly backed Barack Obama in Nevada's Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday, a survey found. In the state's Republican caucuses, one in four participants were Mormons and nearly all of them supported Mitt Romney as he romped in a barely contested race.
Meanwhile, early results of exit polling in South Carolina's Republican primary indicated older voters, conservatives and white evangelical Christians were turning out heavily. Veterans were about a quarter of the overall vote.
The voter surveys for The Associated Press and television networks found:
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NEVADA DEMOCRATIC CAUCUSES
Two-thirds of caucus-goers were white and Clinton won then by 52 percent to 34 percent for Obama. Fifteen percent were black and Obama won 83 percent of them. A similar proportion were Hispanic and they went more than 2-to-1 for Clinton, although the survey could not cover nine at-large voting precincts at casinos on the Las Vegas strip — sites expected to include many Hispanics among culinary union workers.
Women comprised 59 percent of caucus-goers and they went 51-38 for Clinton, while men split pretty evenly between her and Obama. That was more like the results in the New Hampshire primary than the Iowa caucuses, which Obama won by narrowly defeating Clinton among women.
Black women — choosing between voting for a black man or a white woman — supported Obama as overwhelmingly as black men did.
Excluding the casino sites, three in 10 caucus-goers were union members and they split evenly between Clinton and Obama.
Clinton won 58 percent of Catholics, who were 27 percent of the electorate. She won 44 percent of more numerous Catholics in New Hampshire.
Clinton and Obama split most ideological groups, although Clinton won among those who called themselves very liberal. Obama had won that group in New Hampshire but came under attack from Clinton and John Edwards as the Nevada race ended over perceived complimentary comments he made about Ronald Reagan. Clinton also edged out Obama among voters who made up their minds Saturday, though fewer than one in 10 did so.
As he did in Iowa, Obama won nearly six in 10 caucus-goers under age 30 — but they made up only 13 percent of caucus-goers. Clinton dwarfed that advantage by winning 60 percent of voters over age 60, who were more than a third of the electorate.
Obama won independents by 14 points while Clinton won by 12 among Democrats, who were four out of five caucus-goers.
Half the caucus-goers said it was most important to them that a candidate can bring about needed change, and Obama won 60 percent of them. But Clinton prevailed by getting three in 10 "change" voters plus nearly nine of 10 of those whose top priority was the candidate's experience.
Edwards found no particularly strong support among any voter group as he ran a distant third. Because the Nevada Democratic caucuses used rules like Iowa's, with an initial viability stage followed by final delegate allocations, much of Edwards' support ultimately went to other candidates. Asked their second choice in the entrance poll, four in 10 of Edwards' supporters chose Obama while one-third chose Clinton.
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NEVADA REPUBLICAN CAUCUSES
Mormons comprised 26 percent of those attending Nevada's GOP caucuses, and 95 percent voted for Romney. Romney is a Mormon, and his religion has been cited as a problem by some Republican voters. Against little competition — only Romney and Ron Paul campaigned much in Nevada — he also won among Protestants and Catholics, although Paul won among the 7 percent who said they align with no religion.
Half of Romney's overall vote in Nevada came from Mormons.
About one in five GOP caucus-goers were white evangelical or born-again Christians and Romney won them too with 37 percent, although 22 percent favored Mike Huckabee.
Nearly six in 10 of those identifying themselves as Republicans — the bulk of the voters — backed Romney. Half of independents favored Paul but they made up only about 12 percent of GOP caucus-goers.
Romney also led across the ideological spectrum, which in the Nevada Republican caucuses ranged almost exclusively from moderate to very conservative. Romney did better among more conservative voters.
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SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
Conservatives and white evangelical or born-again Christians were turning out heavily. So were older voters, early exit polling found.
The economy was their top choice as the country's most important issue, followed by illegal immigration. Just over half said illegal immigrants should be deported.
Veterans were about a quarter of the overall vote. Native South Carolinians were making up just less than half the vote.
The leading quality they wanted in a candidate was one who shares their values.
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The results were from surveys conducted for AP and the television networks by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International among:
_1,098 voters entering 30 sites in Nevada's Democratic caucuses; sampling error plus or minus 4 percentage points.
_833 voters entering 20 sites in Nevada Republican caucuses; sampling error 5 points.
_1,154 voters leaving 35 precincts in South Carolina's Republican primary; sampling error 4 points.
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