A look at religious voters in the 2008 elections

First it has to be mentioned that Obama and the democrats made their largest gains with during this elections among religious minorities. So I will look at some of these groups now.
(Source: Analysis of aggregated election weekend and post-election callback surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.)

The figure shows which groups voted for Obama and which groups voted for McCain. This figure shows how important religion was during the presidential election in 2008. The blue bars are describing Obama´s voters and the red bars are describing McCain`s voters. It is very striking that the black protestants voted nearly 100% for Obama and at the bottom it is the other way round. So it gets obvious that religion played a huge role in the American elections.
You can also see that there is a sharp distinction between democratic voters and republicans. Therefore you can see that racial and ethnis minortities voted most for the democrates and whites voted more for the republicans. Furthermore I think that these numbers show clearly the growing immigration in the United States. Today there are many more different ethnical groups than oin former times. So it it is understandable that these people need someone who knows what they need. Obama is a person who has drawn parallels between his life and their lives. So this is why this sharp distinction between the voters appears. Nowadays there are many more opinions and cultures so it is a natural behaviour that the minorities want to come together with a president who cares about them.
During the next few days there will be another post which takes a look at the changes of religion in politics.