Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon May 19, 2008 at 1:13 PM Pacific

Geraldine Ferraro's claim by the numbers

Given the interest in Geraldine Ferraro's threat that she might not vote for Obama (who she says is sexist) in the fall, I thought it might be useful to take another look at the data that I complied a few days back about race and gender in the primaries.

The following table is summary, showing the number (in millions) of votes for each candidate from voters who said that either race or gender was important in their decision making process.

As you can see, race was essentially a wash, but gender was a big net positive for Clinton.

Overall about one-fifth of Democratic primary voters said that race or gender was important to them.

Geraldine Ferraro's claim by the numbers

Given the interest in Geraldine Ferraro's threat that she might not vote for Obama (who she says is sexist) in the fall, I thought it might be useful to take another look at the data that I complied a few days back about race and gender in the primaries.

The following table is summary, showing the number (in millions) of votes for each candidate from voters who said that either race or gender was important in their decision making process.

As you can see, race was essentially a wash, but gender was a big net positive for Clinton.

Overall about one-fifth of Democratic primary voters said that race or gender was important to them.

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