ABC News: Latinos Boost Texas Democratic Primary

ABC News: Latinos Boost Texas Democratic Primary: "ANALYSIS By GARY LANGER March 4, 2008 Share Latinos turned out in big numbers in the Texas Democratic primary, accounting for a record 30 percent of voters, up from 24 percent in 2004 – second in this cycle only to New Mexico, and matching California. They went nearly 2-1 for Clinton, 63-35 percent, a crucial element for her." An additional 19 percent of voters were African-Americans – roughly matching their 2004 turnout, but well down from their 34 percent share in Texas in 1984, when Jesse Jackson ran. Obama won 85 percent of blacks in Texas. Clinton won white women by 19 points; white men, a swing group in many Democratic primaries this year, split evenly between the two. Battle of Change, Experience As in Ohio, the gap between "change" and "experience" as top attributes was narrower than in most primaries, a 17-point margin for "change," 44-27 percent, the fewest to pick change as the top attribute in any primary save Arkansas. Obama won "change" voters by 72-27 percent, while those more concerned with experience went for Clinton almost unanimously, 91-8 percent.