Posted on 03/06/2008 9:01:19 AM PST by seanmerc
Republican crossover voters apparently helped win the Democratic primary in Texas for Hillary Clinton — with one in every 10 Democratic votes came from Republicans.
And they could have been heeding the call of top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh, who had been urging Republican listeners to vote for Hillary to prevent the Democrats from unifying around Obama and to keep the two candidates battling each other.
“Hillary Clinton is back in the race, thanks in some small part to Republican voters mindlessly following the commands of radio entertainers and crossing party lines to vote for the candidate they view as weakest,” Bud Kennedy writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Wednesday.
According to exit polls, of the 10 percent of Democratic votes that came from Republicans, about 53 percent of the crossovers chose Obama and 46 percent went with Clinton, the Dallas Morning News reports.
But previously these crossovers had voted overwhelmingly in favor of Obama. And the exit polls also show that Hillary won handily among conservative voters, including many Democrats, 53 percent to 43 percent over Obama, reports the Web site Outside the Beltway — which also noted that “Clinton truly might have won the Texas primary on the backs of Rush Limbaugh listeners.”
Clinton’s overall margin of victory was just 3 percent — about 98,000 votes out of 2.8 million cast.
“Thousands of traditionally Republican voters helped swell the ranks of the Democrats,” the Morning News observed.
“Some crossed over out of support for Mr. Obama, others were simply dissatisfied with their own party’s choice. Still others supported Mrs. Clinton hoping that by helping extend the Democratic feud, they would leave their own party in a better spot this fall.”
Limbaugh claimed at least some of the credit for Hillary’s victory, saying on Wednesday: “What we did, if we did anything, is to create a bunch of chaos in the Democratic Party — and it worked.”
That takes the price - the Limbomaniac bots claiming that they just listen, think, and then decide for themselves to vote for the Witch. Ever tried NOT listening to the radio entertainers?
FYI, I had several aquaintances who voted in the Dem primary because of hotly contested local races and voted for Hillary because they didn't want him to be the nominee. They don't listen to Rush.
Voting for or against McCain was also a vote wasted because he had it cinched--plus McCain was not their first choice.
Nobody I know went to the caucuses--which were a mess everywhere. LOL!
Not true. ‘rats are too proud of what they just pooped, er, I mean, “did”.
Of course cross-over voting was going on; it just wasn’t the magnitude that has been claimed. Fun-loving Republicans just can’t miss the chance to mis-lead exit-pollers. Think.
Rush: “Hillary Clinton won’t run for NY senator.”
Rush: “Hillary Clinton won’t be elected NY senator.”
Rush: “I doubt if Hillary Clinton can win re-election.”
Rush: “I doubt Hillary Clinton is going to run for the presidency.”
Rush: “Hillary Clinton can’t win the presidency.”
Rush: Vote for Hillary Clinton to keep the chaos alive.”
Good for you :-) Hope the shower was hot!
The Clintons have lost ONE election in their history. For AG of Arkansas. That was a long time ago. And Limbaugh has been wrong on her/them EVERY TIME since she/they first ran in NY.
Everyone’s forgetting one other thing. IF (now a GIGANTIC “if”), for some unknown reason they (Clintons, plural) would lose the nomination, NOW they’ll be back in 4 years, should (by some miracle) McCain win . Had they been smashed Tuesday, we’d have been rid of them forever, and could have stopped worrying about them ever being in the WH again. Thanks, “conservative” talk show hosts who promoted this ‘brilliant strategy’.
A gap that is too big in favor of Obama will not do any good, since it will make it less likely for Clinton to steal the nomination. Vote against Dim incumbents are good idea.
I've always thought he was a blowhard.
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