Florida Primary Election
January 29, 2008
McCain Wins Florida!
FOX, AP, and several others call Florida a win for John McCain.
These are the last numbers I’ll be posting tonight. They’ll likely change, but I’m no longer interested.
McCain - 34.3%
Romney - 33.0%
Guiliani - 14.0%
Huckabee - 13.7%
What does this say to me? Considering the fact that Florida held a “closed election”, meaning, Independents couldn’t vote, I would assert that the party base supported McCain. He ended up getting the Governor of Florida as well as Mel Martinez’s endorsement, and it looks like he got the majority vote from the GOP.
So if your idea of a conservative Republican is a liberal Democrat who files as a Republican, then McCain is your guy. I guess for me, a liberty loving conservative, I’m out of options and will have to write someone in. Or at least, that’s the way things are starting to look.
If the Florida results aren’t disconcerting, I don’t know what is. I just don’t know what else to say… so I’ll leave it here for the night.
*sigh*
-Eric
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Eric,
Disappointing, sure. Looks like McCain ran the table with moderates and the, uh, senior voters in Florida. It’s not over yet, but this is disappointing no doubt about it. I have yet to hear a McCain supporter articulate an effective argument for why conservatives should forget McCain’s transgressions, which are numerous.
If he gets the nomination, I’ll write in. Who should we write in?
-MT
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According to CNN exit polling data , only 8 in 10 voters in the Florida Republican primary identified themselves as Republicans with 3% identifying themselves as Democrats and 17% identifying themselves as independents.
Romney won amongst actual Republicans, by albeit a thin margin of 33% to 31%.
Once again McCain only won because of the Independent and/ or left leaning vote. So much for a “closed” primary. Everyone keeps saying that McCain did something he has never done before by winning in a closed primary, but in reality the primary was only 80 percent closed. Somehow left leaning independents continue to manage to pollute, subvert, and corrupt the process.
As Rush Limbaugh reported yesterday, there were documented cases where independents showed up at polling places, changed their party affiliation to republican on the spot and promptly voted for McCain.
“In northern Coral Springs, near the Sawgrass Expressway and Coral Ridge Drive, David Nirenberg arrived to vote as an independent. Nevertheless, he said poll workers insisted he choose a party ballot. ‘He said to me, “Are you Democrat or Republican?” I said, “Neither, I am independent.” He said, “Well, you have to pick one,”’ Nirenberg said. In Florida, only those who declare a party are allowed to cast a vote in that party’s presidential primary. Nirenberg said he tried to explain to the poll worker that he should not vote on a party ballot because of his ‘no party affiliation’ status. Nirenberg said a second poll worker was called over who agreed that independents should not use party ballots, but said they had received instructions to the contrary. He said, ‘Ya know, that is kind of funny, but it was what we were told. I was shocked when they told me that.’ Nirenberg said he went ahead and voted for John McCain.” -Rush Limbaugh.com
Obviously McCain did well enough amongst actual Republicans to ultimately win in combination with the fraudulent vote but the notion that McCain won amongst Republicans is incorrect. Furthermore, McCain only got 29% of the 60% percent of those voters who identified themselves as conservatives, while conversely he did well amongst those 11% of voters who identified themselves as liberal with 49%.
(That 11%, by the way, represents the RINO vote. Liberal Republicans?)
So there still is some hope that conservatives may be able to rally around Romney because the argument that McCain is liberal and Romney is conservative is still intact despite the best efforts of McCain to fraudulently claim the opposite.