Love this Stat: 27% of the PA GOP voters didn't vote for McCain

[RobertSeattle]

Not exactly a groundswell of support for their anointed candidate

MCCAIN 73% 585,448 0

PAUL 16% 128,188 0

HUCKABEE 11% 91,211 0

[Hugabear]

1. Ron Paul's still technically in the race - hasn't dropped out yet

Talk about living in denial.

Here in Florida, there have been reports of Ron Paul supporters getting kicked out of GOP meetings. Gotta love that!

[YOY]

2. So splintered it's sad

Even with a "solid" candidate and the opposition squabbling over the inevitable they can't get the insane religious folks and loony libertarians to vote for the clod...

[Muttocracy]

3. I wonder if some McCain voters just stayed home since there's no point? nt

[Cant trust em]

5. How many? 200,000?

We're still turning out a ton more people than they are.

[Muttocracy]

7. yes, overall, I just meant maybe Paul and Huckabee were overrepresented nt

[Cant trust em]

11. I know what you meant. I had these thoughts last night

The most intersting detail of the entire primary experience this time around has been the overall dem turnout compared to the overall GOP turnout. Even in red state strongholds like Texas we doubled, yes doubled, their turnout.

[redqueen]

12. Yup...

that's exactly what happened. Voters for Paul / Huckabee appear to be a larger portion due to McCain supporters knowing there's no reason to bother.

Still looks good though. :P

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

4. Not to be picky but DUPE

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5644283

I found it interesting too but some seem to only want to dwell in the gloom and doom of the Dem situation.

[RobertSeattle]

15. Oops - I did a quick scan but must have missed it.

[berni_mccoy]

6. He would have had bigger numbers if 150,000 hadn't re-registered as Dems

And voted for Hillary.

[bluestateguy]

8. Protest voters

I think the Huckabee voters will come around for him, but I could see a good many of those Ron Paul voters (who are all registered Republicans) either staying home, or voting for Obama (but not Hillary).

[Barack_America]

9. On my campus he received 41 votes. Yep, that's right, 41.

http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/election2008/2008/04/22/results-are-in/

Obama: 1731
Clinton: 690
McCain: 41

As you can see, the youth vote is solidly behind him.

:rofl:

[Thepricebreaker]

10. Thats actually a damn good turn out with McCain already winning the nomination.

[livetohike]

13. I heard several Republican voters say they were going to

vote against McCain and not really for anyone on their ticket. I worked at my local polls yesterday.

Here were the Republican results:

Registered Republican voters: 122

# of Republicans who voted: 54

McCain = 37
Huckabee = 6
Paul = 6

And 5 Republicans voted for no one for President :-).

[quakerboy]

14. So, mathwise

Hillary got 1.2 milion votes. Barack got 1 million votes

All republicans together got .8 million votes.

Given the exit polling(if Hillary, loses .16 of Barack's voters; if Barack, looses .25 of Hillary's voters) if this were directly transferable to the GE(I know, its not, whatever, still interesting)and we do a rough estimate, we could expect Hillary to get 2 million to McCains 1 million, or Barack to get 1.9 million to McCains 1.1 million.

Either way, not to shabby.