OFFICIAL FLORIDA PRIMARY THREAD

Freeperville ^ | 1-29-08 | self

[icwhatudo]

Did not see it posted yet, here we go folks!

[The Inspector]

LOL. Exactly.

[Primetimedonna]

I probably wouldn’t have voted for Hagel either, but fortunately it didn’t come up! I respect McCain’s military service, and have compassion for his imprisonment. However, that is far as my respect goes for him. His support of the war may be admirable, but there is no way I trust him as far as I can throw him on the War on Terror. He has done all he can to tie the government’s hands behind their back when it comes to the fight on Terrorism. He thinks terrorists should have rights to attorney’s in our country after closing Guantanamo and bringing them here. He wants to limit the ability of interrogators. Thanks, but no thanks! I stand by my original words on non support for Sen. Mc Cain

[Caipirabob]

I'm not going to sit here and defend mandatory Romney's health care scheme, but when you stop and think about it he is the best of several not very palatable options in this race. He's not directly advocating that the government assume more control over health care, and he's the only major candidate left who is opposed to amnesty. You can't defeat socialist initiatives if you allow the importation and regularization of millions upon millions of eager beaver Zapatistas and statists from South of the border.

I guess I agree with you. I voted for Mitt today in the Florida Primary as did my wife.

Still, it's a bitter taste in my mouth...I'm going to have my tantrum, darnit! LOL!

[Rome2000]

My point is, how many people will find some excuse "not to bother" come election day?

Lots and lots.

Will never vote for a RINO again.

[Jane Austen]

LOL

[Hattie]

Well if McCain does win, maybe Romney should drop out and run again in four years. Reagan lost his first time that he ran for Pres.

[AlanGreenSpam]

Romney says, “I frankly can’t wait” to run against Hillary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yseyRdzYmT8

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What this tells us is Mitt has already thought about how he will debate her and he has COMPELLING Free Market arguments to deflate all her b.s.

Obama will be a little harder to defeat because he actually has charisma that people like. But Mitt will correctly label him as an economic ignoramus. All Mitt has to do is ask Mocha Obama a question to explain his undersanding of the U.S. Currency system or the financial markets.

Mocha Obama hasn’t a clue on these subjects.

[AuntB]

We need to find a way to reach those seniors in other states being taken in by McCain. We dropped the ball on Florida. AARP publications just love McCain. Old people remember that kid getting off an airplane out of a POW camp and they watch network news. They know nothing of the real McCain.

[SuperCapitanAmerica]

“But, while I’m here, tell me— does the world you live in have a violet sky and three suns—are there unicorns and elves?”

Do you believe everything random articles posted on the web say, without being critical about them? The burden of proof is on the article writer, that’s how a critical thinking person approaches such a thing.

Why do I have to prove the article otherwise, when the article doesn’t even try to do that itself?

Also, “my neighbor” heard anecdotes from anonymous people on the web are used to backup claims? C’mon ... talk about believing in fairy tales!

[lonevoice]

That’s a very good question! The logical answer is, they can’t.

[maggief]

There’s a keeper!

[SE Mom]

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/

HORSERACE

Another Detail From the Exits, and Some Background

Interesting. I’m now hearing that absentees made up one third of the total vote (this is from the source who believed the numbers were the first wave) and the absentees preferred Romney, 34 percent to 28 percent. Giuliani is described as “far behind.”

A couple readers want a little more background on the exit polls. Here’s a bit regarding the issue questions reported earlier:

From partial samples of 970 Republican primary voters and 989 Democratic primary voters conducted by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International in 40 precincts across Florida on Tuesday. The samples include 235 Republican voters and 294 Democratic voters who voted early or absentee and were surveyed in the past week by telephone. Margin of sampling error plus or minus 4 percentage points for each primary.

A couple readers ask if the exit polls are worth anything with the early voting. The early voting amounted to about 1 million in a state with 10 million registered voters. So there’s still a large percentage of the vote going to the polls today. The question is whether the people who vote early are somehow different from the people who vote on Primary Day.

On some levels, the differences will be obvious; Fred Thompson will get probably something more than one percent in the early voting, and will probably get less than one percent of the votes cast today.

But would, say, early voters disproportionately prefer Giuliani because he had been campaigning more in the state when everyone else was in South Carolina? Or are early voters older, and more likely to support an older candidate like McCain? We won’t know this for sure until we have the full results.

The polls come out in waves, and there’s usually three (although there can be more) — the morning, the afternoon, and the evening.

Also note that they’ve had problems with these in the past, most famously the early waves coming out in 2004 that showed great news for John Kerry. If I recall correctly, the exit poll organizers had college students asking the questions, and they gravitated to Kerry voters coming out of the polls (and, presumably, the Bush voters disproportionately told them to buzz off). The networks quickly figured out that the numbers couldn’t be right - I heard that the first numbers indicated Kerry had won South Carolina.

01/29 06:06 PM

[COBOL2Java]

I’ll take ‘em all...

[maica]

When you watch Romney debate Ms Clinton this fall you will not regret your vote today.

[AliVeritas]

Big burrito, big chowdah, big squirrel or big slice?

Hey, I said fried!

Thanks Rocky.

[ari-freedom]

Fred supported mccain feingold and nobody called him a traitor. He didn’t just vote for it...it was his bill!
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/03/29/hearings/index.html
“If McCain-Feingold passes, it will not have happened if it weren’t for Fred Thompson,” said McCain’s chief of staff, Mark Salter

[Ciexyz]

I think we're gonna need at least one.

Pass the hors-d'oeuvres while you're up, please.

[jerry557]

According to the last batch of polls Romney and McCain were both about even across all age groups.

The exit polls are showing seniors went for McCain big-time.

If Romney didn’t get a big turnout from young voters, McCain’s has Florida in the bag. McCain has the hispanic vote as well. He also split the economy vote and military vote. Romney only leads in immigration and conservatives.

I guess the Crist endorsement made the difference.

[KansasGirl]

Found it interesting McCain was only winning the military vote by one point.

[Rome2000]

There are no conservatives running in this primary.

No matter who wins, conservatives lose.