Sen. Barack Obama attracted tremendous support from African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans, and the strong turnout among black and Latino voters in key battleground states helped push him to victory, exit polls show.
The prominent participation of nonwhite voters - and their preference for Obama - is a demonstration of the increasing electoral strength of a multicultural America, a potency that will grow in coming years, analysts say.
Political analysts are studying exit polls and voter turnout data from Tuesday's election and beginning to discern who voted where and for whom.
While Obama attracted more support from white voters than did Sen. John Kerry in 2004, he garnered just 43 percent of the white vote while drawing almost all black voters and 2 out of 3 Asian and Latino voters, according to CNN exit polls...
