The Optimal Obama Supporter...

...would be a black male under 30 with a college degree.

Well, that's the conclusion I grab from this cool like widget from the NY Times that looks at how the different groups voted... It shows some very clear obvious trends.

Like,

• Men like Obama - Women like Clinton.
• Blacks like Obama - Whites like Clinton.
• The young like Obama - The old like Clinton.
• Graduates like Obama - Non-Graduates like Clinton.

The income is less clear, it's moving slightly in the expected direction (rich like Obama - poor like Clinton) but it's not as clear cut. The poor seem quite divided, the West Virginia poor like Clinton by 65% and the Maryland poor like Obama by 41%. As you move up to the income scales the results become a little more centralised.
(h/t: David Farrar)

Best President Ever

OK, so Josiah Bartlet was fictional. But he was an economist, a fairly left wing economist at that - which makes him pretty rare but not unknown.

He wrote a book called Theory and Practice of Macroeconomics in Developing Countries and that is just cool.

It'll be nice if we had an American presidential candidate who didn't sign up to bad economic policies. Such as McCain and Clinton's support for the Gas Tax holiday. Obama has nothing to do with it but he seems like a lightweight.

Oh well. I liked this video from The Colbert Report. And this from the Dilbert Blog.

The Primary Goes On!

I love elections. Today is a hugely important day for the democratic party nominees. It could make or break Hillary Clinton.

These seem to the best place to get results: Indiana (72 delegates) & North Carolina (115 delegates).

Currently Hillary has a 4% lead in Indiana and Obama has a 15% lead in North Carolina. But it's so ridiculously early that those numbers are completely irrelevant. (noon - NZ time)