Comments on: Hey, Wait A Minute

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:59:19 +0000

Hipparchia’s correct, Michael, no matter what your actual voter’s registration card says you are counted by the party you caucus with for the totals.

It’s certainly a good thing that those of us who live in places where you actually are required to be a member of a particular party to vote in that party’s primaries are allowed into the process until it is too late to make a difference, otherwise the media might have to alter its narrative an cover the actual race.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:36:39 +0000

i think they count the number of people who caucus for [with?] the democrats and report that as the democratic turnout, and count the number of people who caucus for/with the republicans and report that number. 3% of the democratic caucus-goers were registered republicans; 1% of the republican caucus-goers were registered democrats.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:08:19 +0000

If many of the Republicans who turned up voted for Obama…what does that mean? Do we still total them in the Republican turnout category?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:18:01 +0000

Michael, the Dems doubled, and the Reps weren’t far behind in increases. I would also note that Obama got the bulk of the independents and Rep crossover voters. I think Huckabee and Paul pulled in the extra Rep voters.

In Iowa, Hipparchia, a lot of them voted for Obama in the caucuses, which is troubling.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:43:45 +0000

usually i’m all for full participation in the democratic process, everybody should have a say, everybody should do their civic duty, blahblahblah, but this time around i wouldn’t be unhappy if republicans stayed home in droves.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:22:55 +0000

Well if you aggregate both parties to get those numbers I guess it may be hard to say what it means, if Republican numbers are substantially down and Democratic numbers are substantially up, for instance, the overall change may seem a lot more modest.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:34:45 +0000

OK, Spring, then. It just that my local supervisor of elections has a hissy fit over any election with less than 50% participation, and everyone is going nuts over how great 18% is.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:14:59 +0000

That assumes that politicians can spell “vernal equinox” :-).