[csmusaret]

I just read some disturbing numbers about the Ky Sen. primaries. The Dem candidates got 520,412 votes and the GOP only got 351,931.

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/KY/15261/25675/en/summary.html

[speciallybland]

It's a closed primary in Kentucky and the democrats have a two-to-one voter registration advantage. Hasn't stopped them from being a solid GOP state in federal election.

The fact is Rand Paul got the most votes in a GOP primary in Kentucky ever.

[MNJohnnie]

Because Rand won his in a blow out while the Dem race was very very hotly contested. You read too much into this.

[dangus]

Closed primaries full of formerly yellow-dog-Democrats-turned-Republicans. People voted in the primary they were legally able to vote in.

[Theophilus]

The Dem candidates got 520,412 votes and the GOP only got 351,931.

• We have closed primaries.
• We have and a Democratically skewed ratio in the electorate.
• A larger percentage of registered Republicans voted than Democrats.
• Conway's margin of victory was very small and therefore more potentially damaging.

[NeoCaveman]

I just read some disturbing numbers about the Ky Sen. primaries. The Dem candidates got 520,412 votes and the GOP only got 351,931.

Which was a GOP record. There aren't all that many registered Repubs in KY, just people who vote GOP in the fall.