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2016 Postmortem

In reply to the discussion: My 2012 Nightmare [View all]
 

JTFrog

(14,274 posts)
14. I'm also a realist.
Mon Feb 6, 2012, 05:43 PM
Feb 2012

And I'm seeing a completely different picture than you.

Have you seen these numbers?

Many observers look at turnout in primaries as a gauge of voters’ enthusiasm for their candidates going forward into the general. The depressed turnout in Florida reflects numerous polls showing Republican voters to be dissatisfied with their current choices and wishing someone else would enter the race — almost 60 percent in a recent CBS poll — even though that’s almost impossible this late in the game. Exit polls in Florida showed 38 percent want “someone else [to] run for the nomination,” while just 51 percent of Romney supporters and just 31 percent of Gingrich supporters said they were “satisfied with the Republican candidates.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/01/416249/last-nights-gop-turnout-in-florida-down-from-2008/


Here is a link to a DU post with a chart of GOP voter turnout since graphics usually make more of an impact: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12518924
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