SC has an "Open Primary" right? no registration by party...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

so lotta playing could have been going on

you know crossover voting and such....since the rethugs had such a "low turnout" last week

just saying

[forsberg]

1. repugs salivate at the though of Obama being our nominee

[FrenchieCat]

2. Why?

[forsberg]

3. because he can't win a general election, not every state is SC demographically

he's not winning NY and California with 20% of the white vote

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[forsberg]

7. no, those are FACTS

[chascarrillo]

13. Incomplete ones.

You don't think that white SC Dems may trend a wee bit conservative, eh?

[Adelante]

8. Iowa

Iowa.

[forsberg]

10. He'll have to face a republican this time, and he won't have

2 dems splitting the white vote as he did in Iowa.

And Iowa tilts repug.

[chascarrillo]

14. That's why we've won it the ast two elections.

Just stop posting. It's becoming embarrassing.

[forsberg]

15. Bush won Iowa in 2004 moron, get your facts straight

[chascarrillo]

22. I'm sorry. You're right, he won by 1%

All of 10,000 votes. Woo!

Did you check out how many people caucused for the Dems as opposed to the GOP? Your analysis is faulty. Quite poor, in fact.

[ISUGRADIA]

29. That's funny, Obama was running much better against Repubs

in Iowa in general election polls than Clinton. Iowa went Dem in 88, 92, 96, 00 and for Bush by only 10,000 votes in 2004 so it does not tilt Repub

[VotesForWomen]

35. look, central plains whites are not southern, coastal whites. please. i'm not saying

that it should influence a person's vote one way or another, but you really can't extrapolate from iowa to florida or new york or kansas.

[stillcool]

12. Love those younger ones...

can't wait to see some old folks shit in their pants!

[Auntie Bush]

33. Warning! Get out the DEPENDS!

[robbedvoter]

19. Because they think he'll be easier to beat. They may be wrong - in fact I think

any dem beats any GOP-er, but they certainly think so, hence the massive media pimping for Obama:


Obama: 47% positive, 16% negative.
Clinton: 27% positive, 38% negative.
McCain: 12% positive, 48% negative
Giuliani: 28% positive, 37% negative
JDNE

Net numbers

Obama +31
Giuliani -9
Clinton -11
McCain -36

[FrenchieCat]

20. I disagree.....

And the reason that I do is because these are not the 1990s. The politics of hate and racial hatred belong there. Obama is aiming at something higher....while those who don't get it will be left in the gutter. If you think that Republicans are giving Obama his wins, you are wrong. Check the stats!

[ISUGRADIA]

23. Yes, Hillary is so wildly popular with low negative ratings

and won't motivate the Republican base in November :eyes:

[chascarrillo]

4. Don;t you think we'd have heard of an organized GOP effort by now?

We haven't, because there isn't one. Nice try.

[robbedvoter]

5. Bush approved his "spiritual guide" endorsing Obama - just in time

A certain GOP county had a larger turnout today than last week...
See numbers in this thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4214763

[chascarrillo]

9. Yes, a Texas preacher has a lot of influence in South Carolina.

Jesus, talk about sore losers.

[robbedvoter]

16. A Bushie on Republicans? Not so inconceivable. It was a signal. Like Cheney

in the Ct elections to prop Joementum - told his people to vote Joementum, not the GOP-er.

[Barack_America]

11. Voters could only vote in one or the other, not both.

I'm thinking that most Republicans who plan on voting Republican in the fall, voted in their own primary.

[robbedvoter]

18. Check the numbers - only a small number voted in theirs.

These demographics were posted earlier on DU by suston96:
have posted these numbers previously:

Interesting demographics about SC. From a state government site. I believe they are current.

Total registered voters in SC: 2,246,242

Total voted in Repub primary: 442,789

That leaves: 1,803,453

Of that non-white voters: 629,000

That leaves total white voters 1,174,353

Non-white voters in SC have shown up by some 20% more than white voters.

The demographics in the exit polling on Saturday will tell all about how the two groups voted.

[Barack_America]

25. So. There was bad weather. I'm sure that many just skipped the primaries...

That doesn't mean that they were voting in the Dem primary.

See my post below.

[RoveRage]

17. Ah yes, the spin.

[EffieBlack]

21. "Whaddaya mean that colored boy won? Musta been some hokey-pokey going on!"

"There's no way a colored fella coulda beat all them white people. Musta been that some white people tricked him. We're much smarter, you know."

Jeez!

[Exultant Democracy]

24. Exit polls indicate that the Republican cross over voters voted for Edwards.

[Barack_America]

26. Only 4% of SC votes identified themselves as Republicans...

According to MSNBC's exit polls.

So no, they weren't a significant factor here.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21226006

[ElsewheresDaughter]

32. oh please

[lurky]

27. Doubt it.

They're having a really close, nasty primary fight too. Any R serious enough to play that kind of game would not want to sit out their own vote.

I'll put it to you this way: Would you consider voting in the R primary if it meant your D candidate might lose?

[grantcart]

28. Republicans who voted last week could not vote again

[ElsewheresDaughter]

31. Total registered voters in SC: 2,246,242.....Total voted in Repub primary: 442,789

[CatWoman]

30. you're on to something here

too bad the "Kool Kids" are too busy pushing their heads further up their collective asses.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

34. I hear ya....I'll wait till all the numbers are in tomorrow