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.