Obama's Victory
A correspondent writes:
[Carter won] the 11 southern states by 9.4 percent and [lost] the non-south by 0.1 percent [in 1976]. (just think about a democrat losing the non-south overall...weird.)... [C]linton flipped the script... winning the other 39 by 8.1 and losing the south overall by 1.4. Guess what obama's south/non-south differential is? ALMOST EXACTLY TWICE THAT: Obama won the non-south by 12.5 points, and lost the south by 6.5. (these are based on the CNN numbers as of late today).... [N]o democrat since, who?, maybe roosevelt has won the non-south by such a wide margin. Clinton came next closest... when he won the non-southern 39 states by 11.7 in 1996...
