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Comparing Gore's Support with Clinton's

Comparison of Gore's support in 2000 with Clinton's support in 1996
for selected characteristics
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199620001996200019962000
% of all surveyed% favoringcontribution to
respondents total vote
Characteristics
ClintonGoreClintonGore
Demographic group
Democrats3939848632.833.5
union families2326595913.615.3
income under $30,000*3423555518.712.7
liberals2020788015.616.0
African Americans101084908.49.0
Jews3478792.43.2
working women2931565816.218.0
Hispanic5772623.64.3
Asian1243550.41.1
other races (aside from white)1164550.60.6
gay or lesbian5466703.32.8
no gun owner in household6352545834.030.2
Issues
Abortion should be always legal2523697017.515.9
Abortion should be mostly legal3533555819.319.1
Philosophy
Government should do more4143727429.531.8
*  The less than $15,000 and $15-30,000  categories have been combined.
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Sources:  Voter New Service Presidential Election Exit Poll Results, 1996 and 2000
<http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/elections/natl.exit.poll.index1.html>;
<http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/elections/natl.exit.poll.index2.html>;
<http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/epolls/US/P000.html>.
Note:  The figures in the last two columns were computed by the author from the figures
in the first four columns.
Reprinted from: Martin Halpern, Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Change in the 
Twentieth Century (Greenwood Press, 2003).