Similarly, while in other states Mr. Romney had generally been losing among voters who said abortion should be illegal in all cases, in Arizona he drew almost as much support as Rick Santorum (about 2 in 5 of these voters).
Similarly, while Mr. Romney had generally been losing among voters in other states who said abortion should be illegal in all cases, he drew almost as much support in Arizona as Mr. Santorum (about two in five of these voters).
Likewise, Chait's "old white people" analysis would lead one to expect that Santorum, the last not-Romney True Conservative left standing, would be cleaning up among seniors in the primary campaign and losing among the young.
Mr. Obama beat his opponent, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, by 18 points among white males who belonged to unions, while losing among white, male nonunion members by 16 points.
The recent Republican claim on the Catholic electorate is much more tenuous — after barely losing among Catholics in 2000, Bush won 52percentt of those voters in 2004 — but it is no less troubling to Democrats, given the key electoral states like Pennsylvania that are in play.
Michael Bennett looks to be narrowly leading among his constituents, but decisively losing among those who plan to actually cast ballots.
