A difference between Perdue and Clinton

There will be inevitable comparisons between Bev Perdue and Hillary Clinton if they are the nominees for Governor and President, since each will be trying to become the first woman to hold the respective positions they are running for.

Their bases of support are quite different though. Clinton has antagonized African American voters, making it necessary for her to get huge majorities from female voters in the primaries to stay afloat against Barack Obama.

Perdue on the other hand does better against Richard Moore with black voters than she does with woman voters. This chart shows her margins over Moore among both female and black voters in our polls so far this year:

Month	Female Voters	Black Voters
March	33	42
February	17	37
January	17	28

For Perdue, African American voters are more important to her prospects than women, although she does quite well with both groups.