Weather was good and voter turnout was reported as heavy all day long, with election officials worried they might run out of ballots; the large turnout was expected to favor Obama.
I don't see any segment of the electorate favoring Obama more than in 2008, and I see some (South Florida Jews) favoring him less.
This surprised some analysts, since a higher than expected percentage of Latinos and Hispanics favored Obama over McCain, who had been a leader of the comprehensive immigration reform effort.
DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee co-chairman James Roosevelt disputes the claim that the Michigan-Florida delegate decision was in any way pre-ordained to favor Obama.
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He had also prior to the election said that he was inclined to favor Obama.
In the head to head matchup, forty-seven percent of the people polled favored Rush, 10 percent favored Obama, and 5 percent supported Trotter, who is also African American.
Central Georgia also strongly favored Obama by a margin of 69-31.
Demographics also played a role as North Carolina featured a lot of African-American as well as young voters in college towns, key groups who have favored Obama during the race.
Conversely, Clinton won Protestants by a margin of 55-43, again ironic seeing as how most Protestants favored Obama nationwide.