Those are disappointed voters voting in favor of candidates whose names are on the ballot but who have since withdrawn. I can relate . . . it's like seeing HC's name on the November ballot and voting for Nader. That could happen.
SteamingPile
· 1 year ago
Most of the KY Republicans were wearing their Democrat For A Day suits and voting for Clinton.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
"Unopposed, McCain only got 72% of the GOP vote in Kentucky "
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okay, this is very interesting...
the REAL litmus test would be... how many registered republicans are there in Kentucky, and how many people voted in the primary.
given that mcsame is running unopposed, you'd expect the voter turnout to be lower... so I'd be interested in finding the total number of republicans who voted in past primaries, averaging them and comparing.
I like the fact that KY (a VERY red state) seems to have problems with mcsame... but I'd want to compare total voter turnout to previous years.
actually, I want to know those numbers for ALL the repugnican primaries this year... especially the ones from BEFORE mcsame won. Comparing repugnican turnout to previous presidental elections... THAT'D be REALLY interesting.
I'd bet my house (hell, it'll be in foreclosure in a few months anyway) that repugs are just staying away from the voting boothes.
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tommytoonz
· 1 year ago
Kentucky as of 2006: Voting age population: 3,077,864 Registered Dems: 57.05% (1,755,921) Registered Repub: 36.55% (1,124,959) KY voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004, in 2004 Bush won by 20points
Kentucky 2008 Repub primary: Total: 183,345 (16.30% of registered Repubs) McCain: 142,826 (12.7% of registered Repubs)
Kentucky 2008 Dem primary: Total: 668,902 (38.09% of registered Dems) Clinton: 459,124 (26.15% of registered Dems) Obama: 209,778 (11.95% of registered Dems)
My math might be off, never my strong point, so do with these numbers what you will.
The Chicago 1968 Dem Convention was a real nasty show. I am praying and hoping that the Ron Paulies show up this summer and make that party look like a girl scout meeting tea and garden party with teargas and water cannons in the streets of the GOP rich white straight male love-in fest convention!!!!
Andrew A. Gill
· 1 year ago
To be fair, it doesn't make sense to vote for the presumed nominee. All that tells people is that you like going along with the crowd.
A vote for a different candidate tells them what sort of campaign to run, who might be good VP candidates, and who to watch out for in future elections.
Still, that doesn't explain why 28% voted against him. The effect that I suggested would account for only a few percent.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
SteamingPile Most of the KY Republicans were wearing their Democrat For A Day suits and voting for Clinton. ---
not unless they switched parties. KY is a closed election, you can't go in as a repug and vote for a dem.
you can only do that in the general election.
dad
· 1 year ago
unopposed? 28% of the gop are opposed to mccain.
c1
· 1 year ago
McBush lost 15% of his Republican vote to Ron Paul in Oregon as well.
I know more than a few Republicans in my county who have professed they will stay home this year, and more who will possibly cross over to vote Obama.... These are people who voted for Bush in '04 - And, I'm in one of Oregon's reddist counties according to last night's results :-o
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
GOP consultant Alex Castellanos and McCain supporter, someone who presumably was on CNN's panel because he'd been invited by the network's producers, disagreed. Check out what he had to say about it...
"Some women, by the way, are named bitch, and it's accurate," Castellanos said. He went on to buttress his case by pointing out that Hillary is "abrasive, aggressive, irritating."
What's amusing about this is that Castellanos actually argued that it's sometimes accurate to call a woman a "bitch" as a way of making the claim that Hillary was wrong to argue that there's sexism in our political coverage. Pretty twisted stuff.
c1
· 1 year ago
I have a really difficult time watching CNN when he is there. I missed that little gem (only saw the replay), but he has always had a very disturbing aura about him to me. There's something about that man that isn't quite right, and it's not just his party affiliation either..
Very much a PKB too, him calling anyone else abrasive.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
And if you look at the county by county stats, there are a LOT of resentful Huckabee protest votes in the state of KY, which means that McCain has just as much work to do to shore up a major part of the base as Obama does. But the MSM wouldn't complicate their convenient little narrative with some investigative journalism and balanced analysis that would show the Maverick in a critical light.
The lobbyist community, who more or less run the Repub party, are very mad about McCain's purges.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
On the other hand, McCain does better than Hillary when she runs unopposed.
UncommonSense
· 1 year ago
Sonuvagun, even Alan Keyes got a piece of this one.
Those McCain/Dole comparisons are starting to look a little more solid, aren't they?
(On another note, I really dislike McCain, but I can't think of anybody this election cycle I found more loathesome than Mitt Romney. I just love the fact that Uncommitted performed as strongly as he did.)
jr
· 1 year ago
Keyesiacs running wild. The dream will never die
hit_escape
· 1 year ago
I'd like to see some "if the election were held today" polls with Ron Paul in the mix. It looks to me like Ron Paul will be the Ralph Nader of 2008.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/pl_nm/usa_p...
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okay, this is very interesting...
the REAL litmus test would be... how many registered republicans are there in Kentucky, and how many people voted in the primary.
given that mcsame is running unopposed, you'd expect the voter turnout to be lower... so I'd be interested in finding the total number of republicans who voted in past primaries, averaging them and comparing.
I like the fact that KY (a VERY red state) seems to have problems with mcsame... but I'd want to compare total voter turnout to previous years.
actually, I want to know those numbers for ALL the repugnican primaries this year... especially the ones from BEFORE mcsame won. Comparing repugnican turnout to previous presidental elections... THAT'D be REALLY interesting.
I'd bet my house (hell, it'll be in foreclosure in a few months anyway) that repugs are just staying away from the voting boothes.
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Voting age population: 3,077,864
Registered Dems: 57.05% (1,755,921)
Registered Repub: 36.55% (1,124,959)
KY voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004, in 2004 Bush won by 20points
Kentucky 2008 Repub primary:
Total: 183,345 (16.30% of registered Repubs)
McCain: 142,826 (12.7% of registered Repubs)
Kentucky 2008 Dem primary:
Total: 668,902 (38.09% of registered Dems)
Clinton: 459,124 (26.15% of registered Dems)
Obama: 209,778 (11.95% of registered Dems)
My math might be off, never my strong point, so do with these numbers what you will.
http://elections.gmu.edu/Voter_Turnout_2006.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/resu...
A vote for a different candidate tells them what sort of campaign to run, who might be good VP candidates, and who to watch out for in future elections.
Still, that doesn't explain why 28% voted against him. The effect that I suggested would account for only a few percent.
Most of the KY Republicans were wearing their Democrat For A Day suits and voting for Clinton.
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not unless they switched parties. KY is a closed election, you can't go in as a repug and vote for a dem.
you can only do that in the general election.
28% of the gop are opposed to mccain.
I know more than a few Republicans in my county who have professed they will stay home this year, and more who will possibly cross over to vote Obama.... These are people who voted for Bush in '04 - And, I'm in one of Oregon's reddist counties according to last night's results :-o
"Some women, by the way, are named bitch, and it's accurate," Castellanos said. He went on to buttress his case by pointing out that Hillary is "abrasive, aggressive, irritating."
What's amusing about this is that Castellanos actually argued that it's sometimes accurate to call a woman a "bitch" as a way of making the claim that Hillary was wrong to argue that there's sexism in our political coverage. Pretty twisted stuff.
Very much a PKB too, him calling anyone else abrasive.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10497...
The lobbyist community, who more or less run the Repub party, are very mad about McCain's purges.
Those McCain/Dole comparisons are starting to look a little more solid, aren't they?
(On another note, I really dislike McCain, but I can't think of anybody this election cycle I found more loathesome than Mitt Romney. I just love the fact that Uncommitted performed as strongly as he did.)