U.S. News Crashed-and-Burned Watch (Michael Barone Edition)
Excessive Leverage

Southern Whites for McCain

Doug Henwood on the share of white vote for McCain:

Alabama 88%
Mississippi 88%
Louisiana 84%
Georgia 76%
South Carolina 73%
Texas 73%
Oklahoma 71%
Arkansas 68%
North Carolina 64%
Tennessee 63%
Kentucky 63%
Virginia 60%
West Virginia 57%
Florida 56%
California 46%
Connecticut 46%
Minnesota 46%
New York 46%
Vermont 44%
Massachusetts 42%
Vermont 31%

Outside the "south"--which for these purposes includes Texas, Oklahoma and Florida--McCain lost the white vote.

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