Quick KY and OR results analysis
Updating my series on the state-level predictors of Obama support, the graphs below (which include 95% confidence intervals around predicted linear fits using data from before yesterday's primaries) show that white support for Obama in Oregon and Kentucky fits the pattern we expect by education but not by black population:





Oregon and Kentucky don't match your racial trend, but they seem to fit perfectly into the regional one.
Looking at maps on the county-by-county level (at the link below), Hillary has won by 30% and more throughout the Appalachians while Obama has done extremely well in the North West and the South Eastern coastal plains.
This has been true throughout the election.
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=060D3B4D8BD64FE039A5CCD6CAFA7DF4?diaryId=4503
Posted by: Jinchi | May 21, 2008 at 12:11 PM
It looks like you should consider modeling support vs education via an asymptotic exponential rather than a simmple linear relationship.
Posted by: | May 24, 2008 at 06:44 PM