Politics on the Hudson

An analysis by USA Today of contributions from nearly 600 ZIP codes with sizeable numbers of black households with above-average incomes shows Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., with an advantage in donations over his top rival for the
Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Reporters Fredeka Schouten and Paul Overberg focused on ZIP codes where blacks earned more than the black national median household income of $31,000 a year and made up at least 13 percent of households, on par with their population in the United States.

Obama received about 70 percent of the donations that went to the two candidates from these areas. The donations were only a fraction of the more than $50 million raised by these two candidates in the first quarter, but they provide an early snapshot of support from blacks, a group considered crucial to winning the Democratic nomination.

Here’s a link: www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-06-13-obama-clinton_N.htm