Bush Slips--Even Further (Real NH Republican Primary Results)

[displacedtexan]

Bush Slips--Even Further
02/02/2004 @ 5:38pm


Moments after the polls closed in New Hampshire on January 27, Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie declared that President Bush had won 94 percent of the Republican primary vote. It was a dramatic claim. Unfortunately for Gillespie, it was dramatically inaccurate.

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As it turns out, however, the unofficial tally by Associated Press significantly underestimated the collapse in the president's fortunes. According to updated figures from the New Hampshire Secretary of State's office, which only today posted a final figure on the total number of ballots cast, only 78 percent of New Hampshire voters who took Republican ballots marked them for Bush. (In one New Hampshire town, Milton, Bush received only 48 percent of the vote, while in a number of others he was held below 60 percent of the vote.)

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Considering President Bush's less-than-stellar showing in New Hampshire, it should come as little surprise that Republicans in some states have decided to cancel their primaries. In South Carolina, for instance, the state Republican Party's executive committee decided not to hold their state's tradition first-in- the-south primary. They simply endorsed Bush for reelection and agreed to select delegates at district and state Republican Party conventions where, presumably, the president will not have to run the risk of embarrassment at the hands of independent thinking voters.


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http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=1228

[ShaneGR]

1. 68%

Wow, that SUCKS......


for him.

[cryofan]

2. And of course the "liberal press" just goes along with the bogus figures

We have not heard a PEEP from from the big press about this surprising turn of events, of course....

[papau]

3. Bush wins NH GOP primary 78 to 22 over nobody - nah doesn't fit media

story line.

:-)

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. and Kerry got 4.3%!!!

The Democrat who won the most Republican primary votes was Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who got 3,009 write-in votes, for 4.3 percent of the Republican primary total. Former New Hampshire Governor Howard Dean received 1,888 write-in votes for 2.7 percent. Retired General Wesley Clark got 1,467 Republican write-ins for 2.1 percent.

By contrast, Bush received only 257 write-in votes in the Democratic primary, where a total of 220,053 ballots were cast.

[ArkDem]

5. Sounds like Bush is finished

.

[David__77]

6. Not a good sign.

An active party support would translate into a high percentage of votes. Soft party support is a good thing for us. I think it's firmer outside of the west and northeast though. The south is his main base, where its' reversed and the Democratic primary voters are soft and the Republicans are more solid.

[King of New Orleans]

7. Bush's anemic showing

Is especially interesting when being contrasted to Reagan's in 1984. Back then, Reagan got 5,000 votes in the Democratic primary (out of 100,000 votes). Shows how pathetically narrow Bush's appeal is (250 votes out of 220,000).

[David__77]

8. Democrats should definitely look to win NH

I think it's aberrant that Gore lost NH in 2000. NH's traditional Republicanism is indeed dying out, supplanted by emergent New England progressivism. It's a different state than in 1984.