About Those "Record Breaking" Primary Turnouts
From the Boston Globe:Turnout in the Democratic primaries, heralded by party leaders as a strong showing of unity and outrage against President Bush, was actually in line with past primaries, lower than many recent Republican contests, and included some record lows in later states, according to a full accounting released yesterday.
At the height of this year's presidential primaries, on Feb. 20, Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe declared that "people are turning out in record numbers" -- even though in the Virginia primary 10 days earlier, the 7.5 percent of Democrats who voted failed to match the only previous Democratic primary, and the figure was well below the 13.2 percent of Republicans who voted in their party's 2000 primary.
Only New Hampshire and Wisconsin saw truly impressive increases, according to Curtis Gans, who conducted the survey for the nonpartisan Committee for the Study of the American Electorate.
Matt's Chat
Terry McAwful has been LYING again...You'll just have to imagine my shock and surprise. All these lies about the Democrats being "energized" and "organized" are just hilarious when you look at the results.Mark's Remarks
As I stated in an earlier post, I guess record breaking is just 3% of 20%....Woohoo!!!!! Don't buy into the media enabling Dimocan'ts who are the true people who engage in lie after lie after lie (have another Drink, Mr. Kennedy, just don't drive females around any bridges, now, ya hear?)
