Exit Poll Analysis For West Virginia

Submitted by politicalWinters on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 3:13pm.

The Associated Press looks at exit polls from the West Virginia primary.

To be blunt, she won in one of the whitest and least educated states in the country.

Quote from AP analysis: Just 45 percent of whites without college degrees in the Democratic primary said they would back Obama should he opposed Republican John McCain in the general electoin. Though Obama seems to have a near-insurmountable lead among convention delegates, Clinton has cited his struggles winning over working-class, white voters to argue she would be the stronger candidate.

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