Posted on 01/30/2008 4:29:39 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Yesterday afternoon, I noted reports of independents voting in the closed Florida Republican primary and pointed out the state law requiring that voters establish party ID by registering 29 days before an election.
Flip Pidot took a look at exit poll results posted at CNN (see page 4) and wonders how 20 percent of GOP votes were cast by non-Republicans:
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
You can thank the Motor Voter law for on-site voter registration. That law should have been titled, “The Democrat Voter Registration Drive.” People who can’t be bothered to go to city hall to register to vote should just stay home on election day.
That was my impression- thanks for the info:)
According to a report on FOX last night a full 30% of registered Republicans in Florida told exit pollers they consider themselves liberal.
Where do you think the winning margin for McCain came from?
More slickster politics from the Eastern seaboard counties in Florida, where “independent” voters were converted, at the polls, on Election Day, into “Republican” voters. The integrity of the vote there is still suspect.
A very clever fraud. And just another example of “vote rigging”.
Where do you think the winning margin for McCain came from?
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The winning margin came from the Cuban, military and elderly vote. We can thank our governor Crist and Mel Martinez for McCain’s victory.
There was a property tax cut on the ballot that any registered voter was allowed to vote on . I wonder if those were the independents that were being exit polled .
If the so called Independents were getting Republican ballots , they and the poll workers clearly violated election law . You have to change party affiliation at least 29 days prior to an election to vote in that party’s primary .
Sure. Just because you register as a Republican doesn’t mean you consider yourself one.
The Clintons may have a significant impact on this primary. It would be very easy for the DNC to write to long-standing Democrats and strongly suggest they register 'independent' and vote for McCain.
On Guiliani: Why he pulled out of other primaries and chose to run in Florida is not great mystery. Giuliani ran a New York investment firm and then joined a international law firm as a name partner: Bracewell & Giuliani I believe Rudy really did not want to be president. His law partners would be twisting his arm. By running in Florida he would be keeping his name in front of wealthy people from NY with second homes. New Hampshire, Ohio and Michigan were not high on his list of priorties.
I heard that too.
More slickster politics from the Eastern seaboard counties in Florida, where “independent” voters were converted, at the polls, on Election Day, into “Republican” voters. The integrity of the vote there is still suspect.
A very clever fraud. And just another example of “vote rigging”.
There was no fraud. McCain spanked Romney in the three far-western panhandle counties of Escambia, Santa Rosa, and Okaloosa. That's where the military are. He also solidly beat Romney in the Tampa Bay area and on the Space Coast in Brevard and Volusia counties. He kicked Romney's butt in Miami-Dade and Broward counties because of the Cuban-American and elderly vote, and also because illegal immigration is a non-issue in South Florida.
http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/flprimary/
But if it makes you feel better to believe there was fraud, hey, whatever gets you through the night . . . .
There is something really wrong with this election.
I think the GOP really wants to pass the mantle to Hillary.
Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton
Maybe we are seeing for the first time how the choices and the whole election is really just manipulated.
Ya think?
This is one for the History books. Pick a Lib, or a Phony... Your choice.
Remarkable that moderates prefer McCain while he is out there proclaiming he is the only true “Ronald Reagan conservative” in the race! He tried to paint Romney as a liberal. So if McCain boasts that he is a conservative, why are “moderate” Republicans going for him??
LOL! I think we don’t really get to pick. We are merely humored.
I am going to be a maverick and just say NO.
Mel Martinez does things to my mind that I can’t rightly describe. What a laugh to have this guy in charge of the Republican Party.
Like my Mom used to say “With friends like that you don’t need enemies!”
Amen!
I still wonder why anyone would still want to be a Republican?
From FOX, 30% of registered Republicans in Florida told exit pollers they consider themselves liberal...the Left has been voting in R primaries for a long time...according to a lefty activist friend who has been a “registered” R for at least 5 years!
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