Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Limbaugh Republicans Making an Impact

*** Update *** Now Wired is reporting on the Ohio results and how many Republicans voted for Hillary just to mess things up. It turns out to be a large number:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/did-ohio-crosso.html
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This article is from Politico.com, basically Republicans are screwing with the Democratic primaries by voting for Hillary. How else could she have received such a high "white" voter turnout which goes again all the previous polling numbers:
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The Mississippi Republicans

The pro-Obama Jed Report has some interesting numbers linking Clinton's Republican support in Mississippi with the quarter of the people who voted for Clinton who say they like McCain and that they don't like her.

Without the cross-tabs -- and someone who has the cross-tabs can check this -- you can't say for sure that those are the same people.

But it's an interesting suggestion that Clinton benefited from the support of Republicans who don't plan to vote for her in the general election.

The question then, a pollster points out to me, is whether (as Jed argues) they were Limbaugh voters turning out to make trouble; or whether they were expressing a sincere desire to stop Obama, for reasons of race or others.

Jed's theory is the former. I'll be interested to see what others who look at the numbers decide.

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