Posted on 05/20/2008 7:49:39 PM PDT by zeestephen
In today's Kentucky presidential primary John McCain received 72% of the vote. Huckabee 8% (dropped out). Ron Paul 7% (did not campaign). Uncommitted 5%. Mitt Romney 5% (dropped out). Rudy Giuliani 2% (dropped out). Alan Keyes 1% (did not campaign).
So what does that tell us?
What does it tell the Republican Party?
Two things.
The GOP has no leadership.
The GOP has no serious candidates.
And I completely agree.
Another drunk Freeper pulled the lever for Keyes in KY.
My brother and I both voted today for someone other than Juan McAmnesty.
I know what it **should** tell the Republican Party and Senator McCain. But neither will listen, nor would either care if they did.
They don’t think they need our votes this fall. Otherwise he would be pandering to the base right now.
And let’s be honest about it. Would any conservative actually believe McCain if he started to sing our song now?
Another drunk Freeper pulled the lever for Keyes in KY.
Sorry to be off point, but I can’t seem to find the live thread for today’s primaries, help anyone ?
How many votes were cast. That would tell us more.
Captain Queeg and the GOP elite could unfortunately care less. We have a liberal as our nominee, and he is going to get trounced in November. Get ready for President Hussein.
This is about the 4th recent primary where the inevitable (McCain) has only received mid-low 70s percentage.
As the presumptive nominee, he is still losing between 1/4 and nearly 1/3 of his own party.
He better hope he picks up the Dem defectees who say they won’t vote Dem if Obama/if Clinton is the nominee.
Otherwise, McCain is in trouble, and the GOP may suffer substantial defeats in both the House and Senate, as well.
No matter who wins we will not get a conservative as president. We need to focus our efforts on our Senatorial and Congressional candidates.
Sorry McCain haters. The fact is Bush won in 2000 by about the same amount.The voters stay home after the primary been decided .Butr its nice your doing the work of the Obama media for them.
Do you have the link for that, ncalburt?
Thanks.
I'd like to verify that data myself.
72% is damn good in any election. People are still free to vote their first choice without hurting anything and some did.
If Prez was the only reason to show up those with dissent will be higher than the mainstream in numbers.
“Kentucky Presidential Primary - McCain Gets 72%”
More than a quarter of the base WILL not vote for this POS.
Looks like McCain may crash through the 80% barrier in Oregon.
It appears that only Ron Paul and McCain are on the ballot.
Any Oregon Republicans out there?
Is that correct?
Only two names on the Oregon Republican ballot?
Total rats voting: 700,690
Those numbers alone should say it all.
I hope these numbers are misleading. In Texas, our votes in the primary really don’t count, unlike this year. The nominee is already decided, by the time it gets here. Much as it usually is in Oregon.
A huge blue state votes for Obama? No surprise. They will follow suit in the general election.
But the Dem turn out worries me. I fear we won’t have the same.
Total rats voting: 700,690
Those numbers alone should say it all.
--They don't say anything at all. The Dems have a race in an open primary. The GOP has an-already-over-the-top candidate (singular). Why would one vote in the GOP election, when your vote could make a difference in the Dems race but none at all in the GOP race? All it says is that there are 197,070 Republicans who have no clue.
As I said, they will have themselves to blame if a dem wins, and as far as I am concerned, they sold their voters up the river. I am not even sure they don't want a dem to win.
Wonder if there were any write ins for Fred.
Fred (and Rudy) was still on the ballot after his drop out. Well, I didn’t hang my chad with Rudy....
This is the best map for election information, IMO.
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html
Click on the “Primary by Year” tab on the menu bar to compare primary turnout and percentages in 2000 vs. 2008.
Very scary.
I voted for RP in WV!
I can’t figure who i dislike more. I won’t vote for mccain or bambi. I would vote for Hill if she gets the nomination. don’t ask, my family says i am crazy they are probably right. She would pander, and move to the middle. Bambi will make carter look like Winston Churchill.
Mccain is Teddy lite. I fight vomit when i look at him. I vomit when i hear him.
But I cannot listen to Barry and Hillary and sit on my hands. It scares the heck out of me.
Do I like McCain??? NO. And he might still do something that makes me throw up my hands in grief.
The repubs have got to take the party back, imo. If it involves using what we have..I'll do that. If it doesn't work.......we have no power any way.
OMG, and the hairy bitch doesn’t make you want to puke?
In 2000 George Bush received 62% of all the votes cast in all the Republican Primaries.
In 2008 John McCain might get 52% of all GOP votes cast.
Yes, for many reasons direct comparisons of McCain to Bush would not be completely accurate or fair.
However, it is important to recall that Bush was not a strong candidate in 2000, partly because he had tepid support from the Conservative base.
Bush lost the popular vote to Al Gore by 500,000 in spite of the Clinton scandals, in spite of Nader, in spite of a rapidly slowing economy, and in spite of a stock market tumble.
I am amazed that McCain supporters like “ncalburt” can find comfort in these numbers.
That was mentioned on FOX News. They said McCain had the nomination wrapped up months ago.
McCain became the presumptive nominee of the party with just 31% of the total primary vote, i.e., after SC and FL.
Those are the only 2 names on both these sites
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#OR
John McCain 85.64%
Ron Paul 14.36%
Well, that didn’t make me feel any better, lol.
But we have the first woman, the first black running.
That may make previous results distorted.
I don’t vote by race or gender, but many do.
According to your link, Bush received 60.2% of the total vote in the 2000 GOP primaries.
Wikipedia says 62.0%.
I'm not going to re-calc the math, but clearly McCain's totals in the 2008 primaries (right now about 47%) are not competitive with Bush's primary numbers in 2000.
Sorry about that. I play with the maps at the site all the time. I used the county maps to choose where to live. ;*)
clearly McCain's totals in the 2008 primaries (right now about 47%) are not competitive with Bush's primary numbers in 2000.
Clearly!!! Those maps are a great resource.
No,I like her style, very personable. Very bizarre, I was one of the best hillary haters. I honestly think she would be a better prez than the guys, more in the middle.
I use Wiki because it's super fast and allows me to sound like an authority.
I back down instantly when people toss better looking facts and numbers at me.
You big ol' anti-war, gold-buggin' kook you! ROFL
And that, imho, is a great way to decide!!
And that, imho, is a great way to decide!!
LOL, Hard to believe we are talking about the same old communist bitch.
She does generate that response in me. So do McCain and Obama.
I use Wiki because it's super fast and allows me to sound like an authority.
I use Wiki all the time, BUT ... verify!
Anyone that joins can go in and alter the information. The bias is unbelievable. We need some hard core types to spend their every waking moment correcting the info. ;*)
“Only two names on the Oregon Republican ballot?”
Zee,
Correct, only L Ron Paul and McLame, also a write in option. I wrote in Duncan Hunter.
Glad you like it! There are all kinds of things to do at that site. I almost joined to get the other reports available for members only.
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