Yawn. About the most exciting part of the whole thing was the primary where everything is decided, the Republicans. It seems that Republicans are doing a Hillary and refusing to give up, even though their candidates have. As Southern Beale put it:
Last night was also the Republican primary in Indiana and North Carolina. John McCain won of course, but Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney still collected a large percent of votes –large considering two out of those three aren’t even running anymore.
In Indiana, Huckabee collected 10%, Paul 8% and Romney 5%. In North Carolina Huckabee received 12%, Paul 8% and “No Preference” 4%.
What this tells me is that 25% of Republican voters are dissatisfied with John McCain as their candidate and wanted to “make a statement” with their primary vote.
As Newscoma reported last night, Sharon Cobb thinks it’s the beginning of the end and seems to feel that her squeaker victory in Indiana was courtesy of Rush Linbaugh. Meanwhile, in important news, “it’s the economy, stupid” doesn’t seem to be percolating through the political discussions the way our wallets wish it was.
It looks like about 5% of the Democratic voters in NC also voted for non-current-candidates, but I haven’t seen any info on who that was. Edwards, I suppose.
Yeah, NM. I think a good third party candidate could blow everyone of them away right about now. And I don’t mean a Libertarian one.
Well, I wouldn’t conclude that from NC Democrats voting for Edwards (if that’s what it was). Since his voters tended to be strongly pro-union and a tad lefty, and those features aren’t exactly what the Republicans-who-hate-McCain are looking for. No, I just think the Republicans nominated themselves a loser this time, is all.
One can only hope…..