What about the other guy?

Here's an eye-opener, from Daily Kos:

The best story of the night? The one that should unite us all? From the Republican primary results:

Bush 57,670
Kerry 835
Dean 633
Clark 545
Edwards 541

That's over 2,500 registered Republicans who wrote in a Democrat in their ballot.

That's got to scare the shit out of Rove.

I checked the original site for comparison purposes, and on the Democrat side there were 169 total write-in votes. 115 for George W. Bush, and 54 for Hillary Rodham Clinton. There were also some write-ins on the Republican side that Kos left out-- for Kucinich (28), Mosley-Braun (15), Gephardt (14), and Sharpton (11).

I don't know if Rove needs to reach for the Charmin or not, but that does make about 7.5% total votes in the Republican primary for Democratic candidates. I'm sure some of those are from confused voters and pranksters, but 7.5% seems high enough that there must be a significant protest vote being registered...

Posted by Jason at January 28, 2004 02:12 PM