ELECTION 2008: DEMOGRAPHICS

Obama Buoyed By Coalition Of The Ascendant

Winning campaign helps Democrats build formidable alliance of minorities and better-educated whites.

by Ronald Brownstein

Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008


He won the most decisive Democratic presidential victory in a generation largely by tapping into growing elements of American society: young people, Hispanics and other minorities, and the white professional upper middle-class. Can the coalition last?

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