'04 voting statistics from California: Profile of a solid blue state

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From the respected Field Poll.

Kerry beat Bush by 9.9% compared to 11.8% for Gore in 2000, 12.9% for Clinton in '96 and 13.4% margin of victory for Clinton in '92.

White voters favored Bush 51-47 percent.
Latino voters favored Kerry 66-32.
African American voters favored Kerry 83-16.
Asian voters favored Kerry 64-34.

Protestant voters favored Bush 60-39.
Catholics favored Kerry 61-38.
Jews favored Kerry 79-20.
Other religions favored Kerry 73-25.
No preference favored Kerry 65-32.

High School education or less favored Bush 52-46
Some college favored Bush 50-49.
College Grads favored Kerry 57-40.
Post Grads favored Kerry 64-33.

Income less than $30,000 favored Kerry 60-37.
30-49,000 favored Kerry 56-42.
50-74,999 favored Kerry 50-47.
75-99,999 favored Kerry 49-47
100,000+ favored Kerry 51-48.

Age 18-29 favored Kerry 59-39.
30-44 favored Kerry 53-45.
45-59 favored Kerry 53-45.
60 and over favored Kerry 54-44.

First Time Voters favored Kerry 61-36.
Past voters favored Kerry 53-46.

http://www.field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/COI-05-Jan-Demography.pdf

[David__77]

1. Many of these voters unfortunately voted for "liberal" Schwarzenegger.

However, anecdotally, some of them are "surprised" he has broken his promise on education funding. I say this should be the issue we go after him on. People in this state definitely want more education funding. It's the one thing people want to pay higher taxes for.

If we say we want to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for properly funding education, and he resists, then we can win that fight.