North Carolina held a presidential primary on May 8 for the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian Parties. The State Board of Elections web page has unofficial results, but it is not easy to link to the presidential results.
As of 11:30 p.m. eastern time, the Democratic results are: President Obama 757,195; no preference 198,903.
The Republican results are: Mitt Romney 632,978; Ron Paul 106,749; Rick Santorum 100,404; Newt Gingrich 73,691; no preference 50,174.
The Libertarian results are: Gary Johnson 1,477; Roger Gary 638; R. J. Harris 606; Lee Wrights 328; Carl Person 269; Bill Still 219; no preference 4,658.
This is the first time North Carolina has ever conducted a presidential primary for a party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties. Because the Libertarian Party has already nominated its ticket, the primary is odd. The California Libertarian Party will also be having a presidential primary, on June 5.
I find these results suspicious.
Of course! The low voter turnout and results have nothing at all to do with the fact that the state party did nothing to promote participation in the primary, that the primary was held days after the LP chose its nominee and so is irrelevant, that half the candidates listed had dropped out of the race. Nor does it mean anything that the nearly 60% of the votes cast for “No preference” could be considered an alternative for NOTA.
BS!
LOL, 26% of democrat voters had no preference between obama and nobody
Actually, its 20.8% (198,903/(757,195+198,903)), which is still a high number for a sitting president who must carry North Carolina to win re-election. Will “no preference” actually get one-fifth of North Carolina’s Democratic delegates?
What’s more disturbing for the president has to be the 39% that the inmate in Texas got in the West Virginia primary.
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