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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Exit Polls: The Demographics

By Marc Ambinder
Apr 22 2008, 8:01 PM ET Comment

(These numbers courtesy of CBS News. Read more here.)

Pennsylvania Democrats expect Barack Obama will be the nominee and they like him more. But Clinton seems to have won more of their their votes. 67% of primary voters found Obama was honest and trustworthy; 54% found Clinton to be trustworthy. And 54% expect Barack Obama to be the nominee

The traditional coalitions held.

-- Clinton won women; Obama won men; Clinton won white men.

-- Late deciders went for Clinton by a ratio of about three to two

--Obama won among those with a college degree; Clinton won among those without a college degree

-- Clinton won white, blue collar men by about 30 percentage points

--Clinton won the support of those making less than 50K; she and Obama both took about 50% of the vote of those who made more than 50K.

-- 39% of the electorate says they attend church weekly; they backed Clinton by a ratio of 3 to 2.

-- A third of Pennsylvania Dems own guns; Clinton won 58% of their votes.

-- Clinton won among union households;

-- White Catholics (31% of the vote) went for Clinton by nearly 45 percentage points.

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