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I still stand by my theory that the Dems in MI and FL took away the delegates so that people could vote in the GOP primary. Tampa Tribune did an article that said thousands had switched registrations from Dem to GOP to vote in the GOP primary. Now tell me does it sound like at least 100k could have done that? Why was turnout so high?

Look at the polling data they included Dems and Independents. I guess they were the ones that told the truth and not real GOP voters. No way McCain is ever going to win GOP voters.

Huckabee only attacked Romney but never McCain. In fact he lied for him. Like many have said he is staying in the race to dilute Romney’s vote. Time for him to go. Let the two of them slug it out and may the best man win.

1. Fla has party registration. The Sec State posts the totals every month, by county and precinct. If you look at those stats, there was minimal change through end of Dec., which was the close of the books for the primary. The "exit polls" ASK people what they consider themselves. IF you look at the dem polls you will see some number who say they are Republicans, just like the exit polls for us.

2. It's definitely true that McCain won among the "less staunch" republicans by attitude, but they were all registered as GOP (I know that some guy somewhere was allowed to vote even though an independent, but I am quite sure that examination will reveal few and far between.) We have to face the fact that not all registered GOPs are as conservavie as we are -- or if we want only folks as conservative as we to call themselves republicans, we're going to have a much smaller party.

3. There was also a pretty important property tax proposition on the ballot, which brought out a lot of people. I know nothing about the merits, but from the voting pattern, it seems that the dem areas were the strongest pockets of opposition, but it got the 60% needed to pass.