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by p lukasiak on Sat May 10, 2008 at 08:23:06 PM EST
I probably should have gone with 65, but I started using data from the NY Times exit polls, and most of their age demographics was broken down as 60+ as the oldest category.

But the times doesn't carried demographic data for only 7 of the 12 post ST states, so I went to CNN and I filled in the data for the missing states, grabbing their  60+ numbers rather than their 65+ numbers.  And since I now had 10 states with 60+ data, and two states with Times data for 65+, I decided to get the 60+ numbers for CNN from those states.

At which point I realized that the Times data was actually a lot more 'raw' than the CNN data, so I went back and replaced all Times data I still had with the CNN data for the 60+ cohort.

Obama actually does worse among the 65+ cohort than he does with the 60+ cohort, btw.  

But since two of the Times states was 65+

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