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Win highlights party’s potential

 
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Published: November 9, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s big win could provide Democrats with a roadmap for an even bigger electoral majority in the future — something that seemed implausible just four years ago.

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Obama won in the suburbs of key states, expanded Democratic majorities in big cities and made inroads into rural areas that had been off-limits to Democrats in recent presidential elections.

Nationwide, Republican John McCain won a majority of the white vote in Tuesday’s election. But Obama, who will become the nation’s first black president, actually fared better than Democratic nominee John Kerry did among white voters in 2004 — and he did it in some unlikely places, according to an Associated Press analysis.

As expected, Obama did well among low-income voters. But he also won over the wealthiest Americans, despite promising a tax increase for those making more than $250,000 a year.

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