
Originally Posted by
Col Forbin
I agree with you on NY and CA, however, they do have very concentrated populations.
Maybe the term "landslide" was a little much, however in terms of electoral votes - it was a pretty steep margin of victor. On the other hand, when looking at all of the demographic and categorical breakdown of voters (age, race/ethnicity, religion, education, and income) - Obama had a larger percentage of votes in all of those categories, except only two (whites, and over 65 - both of which were by extremely narrow margins). I think it says a great deal about his popularity. It was not one or two demographic groups, he won the popular vote in almost every statistical category.