jyl, I hope you're still watching this thread.
I've been searching for voter demographics, but I'm only finding stuff for past elections.
Here's an interesting article:
http://www.epinet.org/briefingpapers/Joined.pdf
Clinton and the Democrats gained support from those with less education. Based on posts in the OT forum, I was led to believe the educated elite preferred the Democrats....
Also, from another thread, Aurel points out that Democrat-leaning states had higher income than Rep-leaning states (obviously implying Democrats are wealthy or better-off). From
http://www.maitreg.com/politics/elections/2000/exitpolls.asp
(wish I had some real stats):
Both Gore and Nader did well with voters of lower incomes, and Bush did well among voters with higher incomes.
Gore won a large majority of voters who consider themselves to be "upper class", while Bush won a large majority of those who consider themselves to be "upper-middle class"