<![CDATA[Race And, To A Lesser Extent, Gender Still Divide Dem Race]]>

1.0 link 85218 <![CDATA[Race And, To A Lesser Extent, Gender Still Divide Dem Race]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/05/race-and-to-a-lesser-exte_n_85218.html Exit polls from the Democratic primary show an electorate still divided by race and gender - the former remains a wide gap in favor of Sen. Barack Obama, but the latter is narrowing slightly against Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Throughout the southern states, Obama continued to best Clinton among black voters by exceedingly wide margins. In Georgia the Illinois Democrat earned 88 percent of that group's support, compared to Clinton's 11 percent. In Alabama, that margin was 82 percent to 16 percent...

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