The world is a strange place. I think we are in the midst of one of the weirdest election/polling cycles of all time. If anyone was switching from McCain to Obama would you expect them to be older White men?
Chicago Trubune
Roughly 5 percent of respondents in Reuters/Ipsos polls said they chose the Republican contender in 2008 and will switch to Obama in 2012. This number peaked at around 9 percent two separate times over the summer, according to data collected since January.
The McCain-to-Obama switchers are 55 percent male, and 34 percent of them are 55 or older. (Overall, Obama trails Romney 34 percent to 52 percent among white men over 50.) About 72 percent of them are white.