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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.