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Comparing Gore's Support with Clinton's

by Martin Halpern



Comparison of Gore's support in 2000 with Clinton's support in 1996
for selected characteristics
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	1996	2000	1996	2000	1996	2000
		% of all surveyed		% favoring		contribution to
		respondents				total vote
Characteristics
			Clinton	Gore	Clinton	Gore
Demographic group

Democrats	39	39	84	86	32.8	33.5
union families	23	26	59	59	13.6	15.3
income under $30,000*	34	23	55	55	18.7	12.7
liberals	20	20	78	80	15.6	16.0
African Americans	10	10	84	90	8.4	9.0
Jews	3	4	78	79	2.4	3.2
working women	29	31	56	58	16.2	18.0
Hispanic	5	7	72	62	3.6	4.3
Asian	1	2	43	55	0.4	1.1
other races (aside from white)	1	1	64	55	0.6	0.6
gay or lesbian	5	4	66	70	3.3	2.8
no gun owner in household	63	52	54	58	34.0	30.2

Issues

Abortion should be always legal	25	23	69	70	17.5	15.9
Abortion should be mostly legal	35	33	55	58	19.3	19.1

Philosophy

Government should do more	41	43	72	74	29.5	31.8

* 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).