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Illinois Democratic Exit Poll
Illinois Republican Exit Poll

 

Religious demographics chart

 

Republican Primary Results

Illinois
Candidate
Votes
Vote %
Del*

 


 
 
McCain
424,071
47%
54
Romney
256,805
29%
2
Huckabee
147,626
17%
0
Paul
45,166
5%
0
Giuliani
11,341
1%
0

Democratic Primary Results

Illinois
Candidate
Votes
Vote %
Del*
 
County Results

 
Obama
1,301,954
65%
83
Clinton
662,845
33%
42
Edwards
39,001
2%
0

 

Commentary

Democrat
Even in his home state, Obama could not quite manage to win the Catholic vote, losing it to Clinton by a narrow 50 percent to 48 percent margin. White Catholics went to Clinton by 53 percent to 46 percent. No one liked Obama more than the non-Judeo-Christians, 84 percent of whom voted him. The Nones (those with no religion) came close, however, at 78 percent. White Protestants went his way by a margin of 56 percent to 41 percent.

Republican
Huckabee squeaked ahead of McCain with 33 percent of the more-than-weekly attenders. McCain won all other attendance categories. The evangelicals as a whole went for McCain by a hefty margin—38 percent for him as opposed to 28 percent for Huckabee and 27 percent for Romney. While this may say something about Illinois (Willow Creek-style) evangelicals, it suggest above all that without mounting a real mobilization campaign (cf. Florida), Huckabee was simply unable to win his base. In the Land of Lincoln, McCain won a bare majority of Catholics and a solid plurality of Protestants (including “Other Christians”).
   

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