From the Iowa entrance polls:
|
white |
non-White |
Clinton |
49 |
58 |
Sanders |
46 |
34 |
OMalley |
2 |
2 |
The non-white sample was 150 out of 1,660, so while unfortunately small, the 24-point gap is still outside the margin of error. That sample size was also too small to break out African Americans, Latinos, and Asians, so we don’t have granularity. Also unfortunately, New Hampshire won’t provide greater insight next week, so this is all we have to work with. (I included Martin O’Malley because half of his meager support came from non-whites, probably Latinos happy with his strong defense of immigrant rights.)
In any case, look at this from FiveThirtyEight (click on link for full chart):
Bernie Sanders must break out of that demographic cul-de-sac if he wants to compete in the long haul. There are only so many states this well-suited for him. And of those that are (at the top of the list), he needs to win all of them.