Election Demographics

[Franco]

Originally Posted by parishht

This is an exit poll,
so that is 95% of the people asked.
Even though 95% of the black vote was for Obama,
it was only 13% of the total voters. HHHMMMMMMMMM

It is not suprising to me tha blacks are only 13% of the total vote, look at the 2004 census numbers below

United States

Estimate

Margin of Error
Total:

299,398,485
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White alone

221,331,507
+/-120,829

Black or African American alone

37,051,483
+/-40,251

American Indian and Alaska Native alone

2,369,431
+/-25,930

Asian alone

13,100,095
+/-29,634

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone

426,194
+/-10,127

Some other race alone

19,007,129
+/-109,510

Two or more races:

6,112,646
+/-62,937

Two races including Some other race

1,390,337
+/-29,772

Two races excluding Some other race, and three or more races

4,722,309
+/-50,099

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey