---
title: "What’s the Matter with the Rich?"
description: "Obama won 52% of voters with incomes over $200,000."
date: "2008-11-07"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2008/11/07/whats-the-matter-with-the-rich/"
---

# What’s the Matter with the Rich?

While Obama, like John Kerry, won those with low or moderate annual incomes (60% of those making less than $50,000 a year), more striking was the exit poll finding that he carried more than half (52%) of voters with annual incomes of $200,000 or more. Kerry won just 35% of these high-income voters in 2004. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1023/exit-poll-analysis-2008)