Here is a link to the CNN election returns page for the Mississippi primaries. Even though only a small share of the vote has been counted, CNN has projected a win for Barack Obama in the Democratic primary, and a win for John McCain in the Republican primary.
12% of the Democratic primary voters were Republicans, 75% of whom voted for Clinton. This gives the Mississippi Democratic Party more ammunition in its lawsuit against our primary election law.
Shawn O’Hara lost the Dem Senate primary (surprise, surprise!). Guess we’ll have to wait a little longer for Shawn to install snow cone stands at rest stops.
obama wins ms amazingplanes also land at the airport.the democrat senate nominee is a dangerous radical limked to larouche.steve for whom did you vote?
STEVE I BELIEVE IN THE SECRET BALLOT SO PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR ASKING A PERSONAL QUESTION BUT SINCE YOU ARE RATHER OUTSPOKENI THOUGHT YOU WOULD NOT BE AFRAID TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.MY BAD
Erik Fleming, the Dem nominee against Sen. Thad Cochran, lost to Sen. Lott in ’06. He then lost his state House seat last year. He mainly won yesterday because he’s black and his opponent was Shawn O’Hara.
Fleming, who has lost many elections, has said that he has presidential aspirations (no kidding). I once asked him on a blog if he had sent his wife to measure the drapes at the White House, and he took it as a serious question.
SHAWN OHARA RUNS ALL THE TIME IREAD OVER THE INTERNET HE TRIED TO RUN FOR SOMETHING LIKE 25 OFFICIES AT THE SAME TIME
Last year Shawn tried to run for every statewide office plus a bunch of county offices in the Democratic primary. The Dems only let him run for state treasurer against the very popular Republican incumbent.
Shawn and his father once qualified to run for the same office in different party primaries. They both lost, of course.
Shawn has run under the Democratic, Republican, Reform, and independent labels.
Mississippi doesn’t have party registration. How do you know that 12% of voters were Republicans?
From the exit polls. CNN’s exit polls are linked to at the top of this thread.
I thought CBS’s exit polls were even better.
I understand the exit polls showed that 8%-9% of the Texas Democratic primary voters were Republicans.
In Texas, you can only vote in one flavor of primary in any two-year election cycle. If you vote in the Democratic primary, you can’t vote in the Republican runoff or go to the GOP state convention, etc. It doesn’t make you very much of a Republican – more of an independent.
You also can’t sign petitions supporting independents or new parties. I suspect that the Green Party or Nader are not going to come close to qualifying because of the turnout in the primaries in Texas this year.
Only 11 states, including KY and LA, have runoff primaries. To my knowledge, Alabama’s Republicans are the only party that invite the other party’s primary voters to vote in their runoffs– since AL law does not prohibit it.
It was amazing that 2 independents got onto the 2006 TX ballot for governor. Kinky Friedman said that the reason Strayhorn got more signatures than he did was because she got all of her ex-husbands to sign for her.
Both candidates made a special effort to get people to skip the primaries so that they could sign petitions. Friedman was even running ads urging voters to “save yourself for Kinky”