OFFICIAL FLORIDA PRIMARY THREAD

Freeperville ^ | 1-29-08 | self

[icwhatudo]

Did not see it posted yet, here we go folks!

[CottonBall]

I am now a MITTEN

No matter what someone thinks about Romney, the term that Rush came up with is adorable.

[txhurl]

I still call Romney by 4 pts, even though the MSM will call FL for McLettuce with 5% of the precints in.

[icwhatudo]

The first wave of exit poll numbers, including absentees: McCain 34.3 percent, Romney 32.6 percent, Giuliani 15.3 percent, Huckabee 12 percent.

[Reaganite1984]

Why We Whisper

[citizen]

You typed “Not too many AZ retirees in FL”
McVain can’t even win his own state. Those that know him best say “No thanks.”

Arizona Straw Poll:
458 Ballots cast
First Choice for Presidential Candidate:
1 Hunter 96
2 Romney 82
3 Gingrich 53
4 McCain 50
5 Rice 27
6 Tancredo 24
7 Giuliani 22
8 Brownback 14
9 Huckabee 10
10 Hagel 2
11 Barbour 1
12 Pataki 0

Unacceptable Presidential Candidates:
1 McCain 282
2 Hagel 272
3 Pataki 260
4 Giuliani 213
5 Barbour 113
6 Brownback 108
6 Huckabee 108
7 Rice 91
8 Tancredo 85
9 Gingrich 81
10 Hunter 71
11 Romney 65

Acceptable Presidential Candidates:
1 Rice 269
2 Gingrich 265
3 Romney 239
4 Tancredo 219
5 Barbour 182
6 Brownback 178
7 Huckabee 167
7 Hunter 167
8 Giuliani 157
9 McCain 89
10 Pataki 70
11 Hagel 28

[Miss Didi]

Yes, you are right.

[jstolzen]

HOW is that (early exit poll showing slight McInsane margin) even remotely possible?

VOTE FRAUD?

McInsane can’t POSSIBLY win this, if only (R)s vote.

[ari-freedom]

you do realize that mccain’s gang of 14 prevented democrat filibusters and helped get Alito in the SC?

I dunno...sometimes conservatives make it sound as if McCain was a real traitor like Lincoln Chafee or even Mr. Hillary.

[RDTF]

great minds :^)

[CottonBall]

The exit polls are sketchy...but their online poll is encouraging.

Don't they show Ron Paul winning?

[FrogHawk]

Ping

[icwhatudo]

UPDATE: Interestingly a second source — yes, guardians of the exit poll data, I have not one but two spies within your ranks! — tells me these are the “second wave” numbers.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Adam notes, “I also noticed the political trading markets pop a bit toward Romney right after 5 o’clock. Romney had been trading in the high 30s and now he’s mid-40s.”

He also noted some items from the AP writeup of the non-candidate questions:

Given four choices, nearly half of Florida Republican primary voters said the economy is the most important issue facing the country. Terrorism, Iraq and immigration each were picked by fewer than two in 10. The economy also was the top issue out of three choices for voters in the Democratic primary, which none of the candidates contested because of questions over whether Florida’s Democratic delegates will be seated. The economy has been seen as increasingly important since the start of the 2008 presidential nomination season.

Eight in 10 Republican primary voters were white and a little more than one in 10 were Hispanic — about half of whom were of Cuban heritage. There were few blacks on the GOP side. In the Democratic primary, two-thirds were white, about one in five were black and a little more than one in 10 were Hispanic.

[Owen]

Does anyone know if those exit polls are statewide or concentrated in a region? And what hours of the day are the?

[Jeff Head]

Uh...no. I both cases, when I last looked, they showed Romney winning.

[Sybeck1]

McCain joined Linc with his vote against the tax cuts.

[rurgan]

For over a decade, McCain has fought for Amnesty for 30 million illegals and their families back in the 3rd world.

McCain would not go against his life’s work now. He is lying now when he says all this BS about how Amnesty is dead and how he is not for it.

Amnesty bills will come back again and again and McCain will sign it. This is what the Marxists like MccAin want to import millions of 3rd world,socialist,ignorant, illiterate voters who will vote for socialism and for democrats. Do you like to eat? well you won’t be able to in McCain’s socialist People’s Republic of the United States.

[tioga]

Like Teddy isn’t the oldest porkiest Washington insider of all.....he’s been there way longer than the Clintoons.

[Miss Didi]

KENNEDY: Let me say how much I respect the strength, the work, and the dedication of two of the Democrats still in the race, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. They are my friends, they are my friends. They have been my colleagues in the Senate. John Edwards has been a powerful advocate for economic and social justice, and Hillary Clinton has been in the forefront on issues ranging from health care to the rights of women around the world. Whoever, whoever, whoever is our nominee will have my enthusiastic support and will have yours, too. Let there be no doubt, we are all committed to seeing a Democratic president in 2008.

RUSH: Okay, we've cut some of the applause out. And, in fairness, you have to trust me on this, when he made those references to Mrs. Clinton, there was some applause, wasn't nearly as thunderous and loud as it was for other people, even for Edwards, the Breck Girl, or certainly when Senator Kennedy got going. But, of course, this is Senator Kennedy being gracious and this is also his insurance policy in case Obama doesn't get it. He's now positioned himself to go back to the Clintons and say, "Hey, we're cool, right? I like my kneecaps. Everything is cool, right?" So the insurance policy's bought, paid for, it's put down.

[doug from upland]

That is genuinely funny. I called the officer’s supervisor, but they still haven’t told me they did anything. I am going to go to the sheriff’s department in the area from which it was sent.