It's Saturday morning. I'm blithely perusing DKos and other liberal and progressive websites and I think to myself, "Why not wander over and take a look at Gallup and see how those numbers are shaping up over there." Not that eveyone hasn't already reported the good news that Obama is over 50% at Gallup today.
So I open up a new screen wander over to Gallup Daily Tracking Poll just to gloat for a minute and I notice a little tab that I never noticed before: Election Trends by Group. So I wander over that way and what do I find?
So I wander over that way and what do I find? A nice neat little chart that shows the support for the candidates by marital status and gender and take a look at what Gallup shows:
Sept. 22-28, 2008 Barak Obama John McCain
Married Man 37% 55%
Unmarried Man 55% 38%
Married Woman 45% 47%
Unmarried Woman 59% 31%
Now I am completely flummoxed. Why are married people more likely to vote for McCain? What makes these statistics possible when the general poll numbers are so different? I just don't get the relationship of marriage to support of McLame. Especially since the US Census data shows that 50.4% of people over the age of 15 are married in the USA.
I recognize that this isn't ground-breaking news here but I am confused and wonder if any of you have any insights into the disparity?