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2016 Postmortem

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts) Tue Jan 31, 2012, 11:17 PM Jan 2012

2008 Republican voter turnout in Florida: 1.95MM people

Tonight's vote looks like it will be around 1.77MM people. If they can't get a turnout in their own primary (and Marco Rubio being rumored on the short list for VP)...I wonder how well they are going to do with turning out the Republican voter in the GE? Sucks to be a Republican voter this cycle with the choices they have.

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2008 Republican voter turnout in Florida: 1.95MM people (Original Post) Old and In the Way Jan 2012 OP

what was the turnout 4 years ago? mucifer Jan 2012 #1

It's in the subject line - 2008 primary turnout was 1.95 million. Old and In the Way Jan 2012 #2

The FL turnout is noticeably lower than 2008 while the SC turnout was significantly higher than '08. LonePirate Jan 2012 #3

mucifer

(23,544 posts)

1. what was the turnout 4 years ago?

Reply to Old and In the Way (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 11:21 PM

Jan 2012

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)

2. It's in the subject line - 2008 primary turnout was 1.95 million.

Reply to mucifer (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 11:35 PM

Jan 2012

The 2012 number looks to be about 10% under that turnout. Since this is the core of the Party that historically turns out for the primaries, I'd think that this does not bode well for the Republican GOTV next November.

LonePirate

(13,424 posts)

3. The FL turnout is noticeably lower than 2008 while the SC turnout was significantly higher than '08.

Reply to Old and In the Way (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 11:41 PM

Jan 2012

The SC turnout probably doesn't matter since Obama probably won't win the state. However these Florida numbers are probably raising a red flag upon the Rethug insiders and establishment.

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