I am an Obama supporter and therefore disappointed today. But I am a political junkie and therefore fascinated by the CNN NV entrance poll.
59% of Dem voters were women! A NYTimes blog item described a "casino caucus" site with all the maids lined up on the Hillary side of the room -- wearing the uniforms of different hotels but all with Hillary buttons.
All this crap about the Culinary Union dictating to employees, and yet it turns out they could think for themselves. Most ironically, Clinton won most of the casino caucus sites. I think an overlooked fact is: service employees are majority female and they are breaking for Hillary, so in the end the casino caucuses helped her!
More entrance poll goodies on the flip.
- Edwards was obviously hurt by viability rules, but he had less than 10% of support even going into the room. Given the evidence above that workers weren't just "following orders", that is bad news for him in a heavily union state.
- Obama won heavily among African Americans (good news for SC), but lost heavily among Latinos.
- Obama won the late-breaking vote, Clinton the early deciders (and she was 20 points ahead awhile back.) Culinary probably endorsed way too late, but the momentum was going Obama's way.
- Clinton did well among the "very liberal", who did not help Edwards at all but who went 3% for Dennis.
- As expected, the over-60s were very heavily for Clinton and the youngest voters very heavily for Obama.