Game on, kids. Game on. This win is significant on so many levels. First and foremost, it gives Mitt's candidacy a much needed boost. Almost as importantly, it shows that Romney is eclipsing McCain as the conservative candidate. I'll turn to the exit polls to illustrate my point. Romney easily beat McCain among registered Republicans, 40 percent to 26 percent. This same story played out in New Hampshire. Tonight, Independents chose McCain over Romney 36 percent to 26 percent. No surprise there, but what is surprising is that independents didn't show up nearly as forcefully as expected. This would lead me to think that the independents who gave McCain a resounding victory in 2000 aren't as enthused about their candidate as his press releases suggest.
Also significant is this: "McCain captured 41 percent of Democrats who voted in the Republican primary, 10 points more than Romney. Mike Huckabee meanwhile, only captured 14 percent of Democrats.
Though the Democratic primary race was rendered essentially meaningless after party sanctions, few Democrats decided to vote in the Republican primary — according to the exit polling, Democrats only constituted 7 percent of the vote in that contest." (Alexander Mooney, CNN) Looks like the spoiler vote campaign didn't work in Michigan.
This all bodes well for future state primaries that have closed voting- ie. where voters can't cross the aisle to vote for non-party candidates. Granted, if a candidate is to be elected to the Presidency, he must win over voters from both parties- especially since the country is seemingly split down the middle along party lines. The time for this debate will come, but tonight at least it showed that Republicans are going to choose the Republican candidate who espouses conservative principles. Conservatism works!
By the way, did anybody else besides me think it was in poor taste that neither McCain nor Huckabee stayed in Michigan tonight for the primary results? If I was McCain's Michigan campaign team, I would feel cheated after all the effort I had put in- especially watching from afar as South Carolina's Lindsey Graham hopped around the stage like a crazed lap-dog before McCain's concession speech in balmy CHARLESTON. Boy, talk about being left out in the cold! Michigan, he hardly knew 'ye.
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On a side note:
Anyone see the results of the Dems vote in Michigan? I know that the delegates were pulled, so the vote was meaningless, but still interesting.
Michigan results:
Clinton 55%
Uncommitted 40%
I think the "Uncommitted" vote said a lot for this state. Had Obama and Edwards been on that ballot, she may have lost.
1. Since Obama and Edwards weren't on the ballot, I'm sure many of them chose Hillary since she was the only choice (Yep, Kucinich was on it, but come on, haha).
2. Consider how many Dems voted Republican because of the lack of candidates on their ticket.
3. 40% of the dem votes were "Uncommitted" - they purposely voted that way because they didn't want her to win.
Thought it was interesting.
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