EXPLATION FOR CHART 1

This chart uses total vote percentages, and unweighed gender percentages for each candidate in the two races (Mcain V Clinton, McCain v Obama), sort them by the percentage of black voters in each state, creates trend lines for each variable, and then shifts the data upward or downward while maintaining the same overall proportions

Here is the original data, sorted by black voter percentages (votes actually means percentage of overall support)

MCCAIN VERSUS OBAMA						Black		MCCAIN V CLINTON
MCAIN DATA			OBAMA DATA			Voter		MCCAIN DATA			CLINTON DATA
votes	male	female	votes	male	female	percentage	state	tvotes	male	female	votes	male	female
52%	55%	48%	37%	41%	39%	0%	ID	63%	68%	58%	27%	22%	32%
39%	46%	32%	47%	58%	53%	0%	ME	42%	56%	30%	48%	37%	58%
47%	54%	41%	36%	42%	37%	0%	MT	53%	57%	49%	33%	29%	37%
44%	49%	40%	42%	49%	46%	0%	NH	49%	57%	42%	41%	32%	49%
47%	49%	44%	40%	45%	40%	0%	SD	52%	57%	47%	40%	37%	44%
29%	31%	28%	63%	63%	63%	0%	VT	39%	45%	33%	49%	42%	56%
54%	59%	49%	32%	39%	35%	0%	WY	61%	65%	57%	28%	23%	34%
31%	35%	27%	56%	66%	56%	1%	HI	39%	46%	32%	43%	34%	53%
42%	44%	39%	45%	48%	45%	1%	ND	54%	59%	49%	35%	28%	41%
43%	48%	38%	46%	54%	46%	1%	NM	47%	54%	40%	47%	43%	52%
41%	46%	35%	45%	52%	46%	1%	OR	48%	57%	40%	43%	33%	52%
50%	54%	46%	36%	43%	37%	1%	UT	65%	71%	60%	27%	22%	32%
41%	46%	37%	45%	54%	50%	2%	IA	46%	51%	41%	41%	37%	46%
42%	47%	37%	44%	53%	48%	2%	MN	43%	51%	35%	47%	37%	57%
38%	40%	35%	51%	53%	52%	2%	WA	46%	51%	40%	44%	38%	50%
53%	54%	52%	34%	36%	34%	2%	WV	42%	50%	35%	47%	39%	54%
48%	54%	42%	39%	47%	40%	3%	AK	56%	65%	46%	34%	25%	43%
51%	57%	46%	33%	45%	36%	3%	AZ	54%	64%	44%	39%	28%	50%
45%	48%	42%	41%	43%	40%	3%	NE	57%	64%	51%	30%	22%	37%
41%	48%	35%	42%