Comments on: Correction: GOP’s loyalty to party trumps hate of Hillary http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/14/correction-gops-loyalty-to-party-trumps-hate-of-hillary/ Think - it ain't illegal yet... Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:26:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Djerrid http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/14/correction-gops-loyalty-to-party-trumps-hate-of-hillary/comment-page-1/#comment-26001 Djerrid Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:27:23 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/14/correction-gops-loyalty-to-party-trumps-hate-of-hillary/#comment-26001 Although the GOP faithful are trying to game the system both ways, there seems to be a lot more "vote for Clinton to watch those two squirm" than "anything to keep Hillary from getting any closer to the White House". The Boston Globe has a nice article on the phenomenon: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/17/many_voting_for_clinton_to_boost_gop/?page=full Although the GOP faithful are trying to game the system both ways, there seems to be a lot more “vote for Clinton to watch those two squirm” than “anything to keep Hillary from getting any closer to the White House”.

The Boston Globe has a nice article on the phenomenon: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/17/many_voting_for_clinton_to_boost_gop/?page=full

]]> By: The Oracle http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/14/correction-gops-loyalty-to-party-trumps-hate-of-hillary/comment-page-1/#comment-25367 The Oracle Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:01:04 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/03/14/correction-gops-loyalty-to-party-trumps-hate-of-hillary/#comment-25367 All I know is that a lady in Texas, who listens to Rush Limbaugh and has a husband who watches Faux News, told me she was voting in the recent Texas primary for Barack Obama, but had no plans to vote for him in November. The way I figure, in states with open primaries, some Republicans are voting for Obama, while others are voting for Clinton, in an attempt to game the Democratic Party nomination one way or the other. One way to determine which Democratic candidate has received the most cross-over Republican votes in the primaries would be to check ballots to see which voters selected either Obama or Clinton, but failed to vote for any of the down-ballot Democratic races. This wouldn't be exact, but odds are that a Republican trying to "fix" the Democratic presidential nomination wouldn't be too interested in any other down-ballot races. All I know is that a lady in Texas, who listens to Rush Limbaugh and has a husband who watches Faux News, told me she was voting in the recent Texas primary for Barack Obama, but had no plans to vote for him in November.

The way I figure, in states with open primaries, some Republicans are voting for Obama, while others are voting for Clinton, in an attempt to game the Democratic Party nomination one way or the other.

One way to determine which Democratic candidate has received the most cross-over Republican votes in the primaries would be to check ballots to see which voters selected either Obama or Clinton, but failed to vote for any of the down-ballot Democratic races. This wouldn’t be exact, but odds are that a Republican trying to “fix” the Democratic presidential nomination wouldn’t be too interested in any other down-ballot races.

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