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February 06, 2008
Super Tuesday Geeking Out
I took some figures off of the USA Today election results page, and poured them into my spreadsheet. I came up with these interesting results*:
| Total votes by party | |
| Democrats | 14,950,189 |
| Republicans | 9,018,365 |
| Votes for top candidates | |
| Clinton | 7,209,286 |
| Obama | 7,133,917 |
| McCain | 3,571,027 |
| Romney | 2,924,949 |
| Huckabee | 1,776,756 |
So all three top Republicans got about 15% more votes, combined, than the single top Democratic candidate. Looking good out there.
* Votes are not complete totals; states ranged from 93% to 99% counted, and numbers may have changed since I dumped the data. I only summed up states where both Dems and Repubs had votes yesterday.
UPDATE: I wanted to save this list of upcoming primaries, and this is as good a place as any.
• February 9: Louisiana, Kansas (R), Washington (D caucuses)
• February 10: Maine (D caucuses)
• February 12: District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia
• February 19: Hawaii (D), Washington (R primary), Wisconsin
• March 4: Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont
• March 8: Wyoming (D)
• March 11: Mississippi
• April 22: Pennsylvania
• May 6: Indiana, North Carolina
• May 13: Nebraska (primary), West Virginia
• May 20: Kentucky, Oregon
• May 27: Idaho (R)
• June 3: Montana, New Mexico (R), South Dakota
Posted by jnfr at February 6, 2008 07:48 AM