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Who Votes in California?
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    PPIC 8/06 % of CA % in CNN      
  % Likely Voters population Exit Poll      
Race              
  White 72 47 68      
  Latino 14 32 19      
  Black 6 6 5      
  Asian 5 11 6      
  Other 3 4 3      
Age              
  18-34 18 33 13 (18-29)    
  35-54 43 40 22 (30-44)    
  55+ 39 27 64 (45+)    
Income              
  under $40K 28 47 32 (under $50K)    
  40-79K 37 19 20 ($50-$75K)    
  80K+ 35 34 48 ($75K+)    
Education              
  no college 16 42 17      
  some college 31 29 31      
  college grad. 53 30 52      
Nativity              
  US born 88 73 85      
  Immigrant   27        
  citizen 12 12 15      
  non-citizen   15        
Housing              
  Owner 77 58 n/a      
  Renter 23 42 n/a      
Gender              
  Female 50 50 51      
  Male 50 50 49      
Party     registered        
  Democratic 43 43 40      
  Republican 36 34 35      
  Independent 16 19 25      
  Other 5 4        
             
Sources              
CNN http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/CA/G/00/epolls.0.html
PPIC http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/jtf/JTF_LikelyVotersJTF.pdf    
California population statistics are from two sources      
The US Census Bureau's American Factfinder      
  http://factfinder.census.gov/        
  click this for the pop page        
The California Statistical Abstract, 2005        
  http://www.dof.ca.gov/HTML/FS_DATA/STAT-ABS/documents/StatAbs05_web4.pdf

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