Kerry's 2% finish in New Hampshire.

[cosmicaug]

When is getting 2% of the vote in the Primary not such a bad thing? When it happens in the opposition party's primary.

See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/28/politics1335EST0631.DTL

Quoting AP story:

He didn't kiss babies, flip pancakes or endure the New England chill. Still, President Bush has won his first New Hampshire primary.

Bush received 85 percent of votes cast Tuesday in the GOP contest. In 2000, he lost the nation's leadoff primary to Sen. John McCain of Arizona by 18 percentage points.

Not that Bush didn't have competition this year. Nearly two dozen other people received votes, several of them Democrats seeking their party's nomination.

More than 4,600 voters wrote in the names of the major Democratic candidates. The top write-in candidate, with 2 percent of the GOP vote, was John Kerry, who won the Democratic primary.

Some of those votes came from independents who said they had forgotten to change their party affiliation back to "undeclared" after voting in the Republican presidential primary in 2000.

In New Hampshire, undeclared voters can cast their ballots in either party's primary. Once they do, their voter registrations are automatically changed to show membership in that party.

©2004 Associated Press

I think that's kind of interesting. Funny the "liberal media" didn't pick this up.

[sangh0]

1. That must mean

that Kerry is unelectable!!!! :-)

[spooky3]

2. Darn, I liked it better when I thought those were Republicans who

were lodging protest vote against *, rather than:


"Some of those votes came from independents who said they had forgotten to change their party affiliation back to "undeclared" after voting in the Republican presidential primary in 2000."

:-)

[Hippo_Tron]

3. First of all, it's 2%...

Secondly, I don't see why they would consider the candiate who was predicted to win the NH primary to be the "weak candidate" that they should flood with votes.

[rucky]

4. 15% of the Republican voted against Bush

there's yer swing vote right there - with or without Kerry's 2%.

[Sterling]

5. It was dumb freepers

Who were crossing over to get W's frat brother on the ticket. They were just too dumb to reregister first.