Reply #168: Regarding Jesse Jackson and the White Vote [View All]

[NashVegas]

Stats here:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFD9173AF930A25755C0A96E948260

Mr. Jackson won about 2.1 million white votes this year, compared with 650,000 in 1984. In 1988, Mr. Jackson got 12 percent of the white votes cast; in 1984, he took 5 percent of the white vote.

The 1988 study did not include Oregon, where there were no exit polls. Mr. Jackson is generally reckoned to have won 35 percent of the white vote in Oregon; if these votes are added, his overall share of the white vote in the primaries rises to about 12.5 percent.

We know Shirley Chisholm took NJ in her 1970s campaign, she couldn't have done that without white voters in addition to the black voters.

Can't find any polls for Carol Moseley Braun, and whatever Sharpton's problems were with white voters, he was the cause of that by jumping onto the wrong case to make a national name for himself.