[SE Mom]

I read the article- but I’m STILL not certain what it means. I thought originally that Republicans who say they’re independent or moderate thinking...but are still Republican. If actual Independents voted in yesterday’s primariy in any significant numbers it will have to be investigated.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Ed Morrissey seeks to clarify this here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961887/posts

In this case, exit polls show "party identification" statistics that put 20% of the voters outside of the Republican Party. That's their stated personal identification, not their actual party registration for last night's primaries. That's not a bug, it's a feature, and it's unavoidable -- unless major parties want to stop re-registering voters altogether. I'm actually a little surprised that only 3% of the vote came from re-registered Democrats, considering the uselessness of their own primary this year, which still attracted over 1.6 million voters to the 1.8 million who voted in the GOP contest. Three percent of that vote would have been 54,000 voters, and yet McCain won by almost 100,000.

[Louis Foxwell]

According to a report on FOX last night a full 30% of registered Republicans in Florida told exit pollers they consider themselves liberal.