Total votes across Super Tuesday

[JaneyVee]

This is from 9hrs ago.

[ismnotwasm]

1. That's what I just wanted to know!

Fantastic!

[lapfog_1]

2. This is NOT Good

Repukes - 6.9 M
Democrats - 5.3 M

[Xipe Totec]

3. Not unexpected given that the Southern states are mostly red states. nt

[lapfog_1]

9. wait... so these results don't matter?

I shouldn't worry because they mostly vote republican anyway?

Serious question. If these voters in Red States won't affect the outcome of the general election, why should they have a say in picking the nominee of our party?

[Xipe Totec]

10. I'm saying exactly what I said; there are more republican voters in those states

I make no predictions about the general election. I am simply stating the obvious; Red states will have larger Republican voter turnout because, well, there are more republicans there.

[lapfog_1]

11. but 56 to 44 percent does not bode well for the general, even if it is a red state... right? n/t

[Xipe Totec]

12. Don't forget to count the independents who don't vote in primaries.

But do vote in general elections.

Look, the South is still hostile territory to any Democratic candidate.

For the moment.

But Trump is making it very, very hard for independents and even a majority of Republicans to vote for their party's nominee.

Sure, Trump is winning, but he's winning with pluralities, not majorities of the voters in his own party.

Hope this helps.

[JaneyVee]

4. Red states have more Republicans.

And more candidates brings out more people.

[Ace Rothstein]

5. Virginia is very concerning.

It has been trending blue over the last 10 years but there were almost 250k more votes cast in the Republican primary.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. It's not really a contested election on the Dem side

This is one of the turn-out secrets that people are ignoring. In a state that goes 65-35 for Clinton, the election is not particularly contested.

[Hortensis]

6. Yes, it is this time. Pubs are coming out big both

for and against Trump. At this point it has very little to do with us. They're in the middle of a civil war, with more than just a couple of factions battling for control of the party, or chaos as the case may be. I just hope traditional conservativism ultimately prevails.

[Codeine]

8. They have a fun, crazy, knife fight of a race.

We have two decent candidates that most Dems outside of the DU bubble like quite a lot.