Tuesday, November 13, 2012

2012 Election Breakdown

The New York Times has an awesome graphical breakdown of voting data from the 2012 Presidential election.
In case you had any doubt about how the country breaks down along gender, age, race, financial status, religion, education, and community lines, just have a glance at these stats.
  • Obama won "Women" by 11 points (55% to 44%). This was very important, because women made up 53% of voters.
  • Romney won "Men" by 7 points (52% to 45%).  Men were only 47% of voters.

7 comments:

  1. The map that you show isn't right. Romney won North Carolina.

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    1. I was hoping that I wasn't the only one who noticed

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    2. Good point. But, you see Florida and Ohio and Nevada, don't you?

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  2. College graduates - those you identified as the smartest - voted in favor of Romney. The less educated tended to vote for Obama. I don't see how this makes sense with the post you had above about the least educated states voting for Romney and the most educated states voting for Obama.

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    1. It doesn't line up with what he said. In fact, it is completely antithetical to his point.

      He is happy to use some vague correlation to try to prove the point he wishes to make. But when you then show him harder and more specific proof that completely disproves his thesis ... he just moves right past it.

      Wait, because next you will get that your proof is so overly complex that he just can't follow it.

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    2. I wondered about that too. In one report, it said the best educated states voted for Obama, but in this one it said the college grads voted for Romney. Maybe that other one was about poor schools systems like in Alabama, not higher education. I don't know.

      FL, there's no need to get nasty about it.

      "He is happy to use some vague correlation to try to prove the point he wishes to make."

      I wasn't really making a point.

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    3. Not in this thread but in the one Anonymous is referencing about the educated states you most certainly were.

      Not trying to be nasty - just stating my experiences here.

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