Californians who voted this week were markedly older, whiter, better educated and more affluent than the state's residents as a whole.
That said, younger voters, Latinos and other non-white voters and lower-income voters had a major impact, exit polling for The Bee and other news outlets found, by helping Democrat Jerry Brown win the governorship and Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer capture a fourth term.
White voters - more than 60 percent of those who cast ballots - favored Brown's Republican foe, Meg Whitman, as did those over 65, even though Brown, at 72, is one of them. Voters with $100,000-plus family incomes also leaned toward Whitman.
Brown captured nearly two-thirds of the Latino vote and an even larger share of black voters, according to Edison Research's interviews with voters after they cast ballots either in person or via mail. He also ran up strong majorities among among voters younger than 45 and among those with incomes under $100,000 a year.
Brown, a former two-term governor, often framed his duel with Whitman, a wealthy former corporate executive, as a struggle between classes, accusing her of wanting to help the rich while hurting the poor.
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