dyslexia wrote:maporsche wrote:Registered republicans went for Obama to a greater degree.
really?
In Texas, they did; in Ohio, Republicans broke evenly between Hillary and Obama.
Ohio was the exception, though. In most previous primaries, Republicans also in majority went for Obama. You could argue that the fact that in Ohio half of them went for Hillary suggests that Rush Limbaugh had some effect in calling Republicans to go vote for her.
It's not entirely clear though. Hillary won pretty comfortably in Ohio - she ran even or ahead of Obama in most of the subgroups. So you could also argue that her lead was so comfortable that she'd even lead in some groups she normally trails in, like crossover Republicans, without needing any help from Limbaugh.
E.g., Republicans, as well as conservatives, in Ohio split evenly between Obama and Hillary, yes - but Hillary did so well overall that she handily won the moderates, liberals, and Democrats, while splitting Independents evenly with Obama as well. So in spite of Limbaugh's call to vote for Hillary, Republicans, conservatives and Independents were still the three most likely political subsets of all to vote for Obama.
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(P.S. One minor terminological correction: the exit polls only record voters' partisan self-identification. If someone says he's a Republican, that's how he's counted; they dont check whether he's a
registered Republican. Wouldnt really work, either, as some primaries require you to register as Democrat on the spot, for example.)
High Seas wrote:Both Ohio and Texas have crossover primaries and in both States a tenth of Hillary's ballots were cast by registered Republicans - though this wasn't widely reported, if this thread is anything to go by
True, both in Texas and Ohio self-identified Republicans made up 8% of the Hillary voters. Then again, in both states they made up an even larger share of Obama voters.
