Behind the Numbers Archive: Massachusetts

In Massachusetts, a different electorate

In Tuesday's Massachusetts special election, Democrat Martha Coakley underperformed Barack Obama's 2008 vote by 15 points, and a new Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation-Harvard University poll of voters in the Bay State shows this year's contest drew to the polls a whiter, older, less-educated and more independent electorate than did the...

By Jennifer Agiesta  |  January 22, 2010; 5:00 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
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