06 February 2008

Super Tuesday Results

The NY Times interactive maps show not only which states, but which counties, the candidates won. It's fun for ages 9 to 99.

Interestingly, the vote in the US South, especially the white vote, is shifting towards Obama (15 percent better than predicted in Alabama; seven percent higher than Missouri polls were showing; eleven points better than he'd polled in Georgia). In Georgia, Obama won 43% of white votes -- almost double the share he captured in South Carolina.

Clinton won New York (every county except the one with Cornell University) and California, but Obama strung together a wide variety of states, including Missouri. Missouri has picked the November winner in every election since the 1950s.

There are a number of videos on the US election, especially foreign policy differences on Iran and Iraq between Clinton and Obama, at The Real News.

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