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DEL.ICIO.USExit polling shows trends
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Here is a snapshot of the exit polling, which helps show what happened in Georgia’s Democratic and Republican presidential primaries.
DEMOCRATS:
About 77 percent of voters ages 18-29, about 74 percent ages 30-44 voted for Barak Obama, according to exit polls.
The only age group going for Hillary Clinton was voters 60 and older, according to the exit polls.
Obama received more than 60 percent of the vote from both men and women.
Clinton beat Obama among whites, 57 percent to 39 percent, while Obama polled 88 percent of the black vote, according to the poll.
White women voted heavily for Clinton, while the white male vote was split.
REPUBLICANS:
Mike Huckabee, Arkansas’ governor and a Southern Baptist minister, was aided by strong vote by Georgians concerned about religious beliefs and born-again or evangelical Christians.
Exit polls showed 69 percent of Republican primary voters in Georgia say they want a candidate who shares their political beliefs. And 64 percent described themselves as born-again or Evangelical Christians.
Huckabee did particularly well among voters under 30, while John McCain and Mitt Romney were splitting those over 45.
Huckabee was having his highest success among those whose family income is than $50,000 a year, and among those voters with no college degree.
The most highly educated among voters, those with college degrees or better, leaned toward Romney.
Of the three candidates, McCain did best among those who expressed negative feelings about the Bush Administration, and worse who had positive thoughts about the current administration.
McCain did best among those GOP voters who disapprove of the war. Of the three candidates, he did the poorest among those who approved of the war.
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