In the Gapology reading it said that Race and ethnicity was the largest gap amongst the 2004 elections. By looking at the exit polls from the 2008 elections, these seems to hold still if not be stronger. It may seem obvious that because of the race differences among the candidates that this may seem to strengthen the gap of race, this seems to be very true. The gap in fact seems to be even larger. 57% of white men and 53% of white women voted for McCain, but 95% of black men and 96% of black women voted for Obama. This is a huge gap within the racial polling. There was a very large gap between Bush and Kerry in 2004 between whites and blacks , however the gaps between other races were much smaller. In the 2008 election the gap with other races was still smaller but not by much. Latino men and women and other races voted for Obama near 65% of the time, which shows he had a strong hold on all races except for the white voters.

An interesting part that I saw was with Age, the only age group of white voters that was more in favor of Obama was the 18 -29 year-olds. This group polled for Obama by 54%. This makes me wonder if it was just a surge of youth voters all around that Obama attracted, or if it shows something deeper. Does this show a stronger party identification or identification to certain opinions and attitudes that are created from lessons learned in early life? If young white voters are the only white voters to change the race gap, does this show that there is more racial indifference or acceptance attitudes that are being learned within younger generations?

Also, did race play a part within party identification in 2008 as well? 14% of white democrats voted for McCain while only 8% of white republicans voted for Obama. This may have to do with race and how that plays a part with party identification and voting, but it may also just be the fact that has been seen over many years which is that republicans seem to be more loyal to their candidates than democrats and are more likely to vote.