The South Carolina Democratic Party broke its own turnout record in Saturday’s presidential primary and eclipsed the number of ballots cast by residents in the Republican primary the week before.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, more than 532,000 votes had been tabulated in Barack Obama’s commanding victory here. The returns easily eclipsed the 280,000 people who voted in the Democratic primary in 2004.
Last week, about 446,000 voters took part in the Republican primary, which was nearly 120,000 off the record set by the GOP in 2000.
Uh-huh.
And Barack got 56% of that massive turnout. I think the Democrats in Congress are worried that the Barrett report will be released to the public. They made sure to redact a hundred pages, but they know any member of Congress can see it, and it’s only a matter of time before it goes public. So now they are lining up to support Barack before the Clinton abuse of power is known. Either that, or they’ll all be audited by Pres. Hillary.
Not surprised.
For Democrats, this election is like taking part in reality TV. It’s a contest, so high turnout.
For Republicans, they are so disgusted with their current lemon/disaster of a president, they are embarrassed to go to the polling booths. No surprise there
But the Republican race is even more of a contest, with 4 or 5 legit candidates, plus Ron Paul.
You’d best not criticize Hillary too much lest you get placed in her Conspiracy Stream of Communications Commerce. Google it.
Right on Mike. It’s the democrats to lose and they are doing their damnedest to do that.
They may have that many votes,
but that doesn’t mean that many voted,
or that way…
MikeN,
You make e Hillary’s plans to send prominent Republicans off to Gitmo for treason, and the rank and file off to those FEMA concentration camps sound like a bad thing.
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I don’t know about you. but I am desperate to get rid of these clown in or so called ‘government’.
Throw the bums out.
As a Canadian, getting to kind of like Obama but don’t want to get too fond given the percentage of wankers like #8 with handguns (or guns in hand) in the US.
Also Ed Schultz.
The GOP is a smoking crater and the Smirking Chimp’s incompetent administration has occasioned this sad event. Only John McCain can flush-out this suppurating wound of neocons, religious fanatics, and ordinary idiots. If Washington, D.C. is an asshole than the Bush Administration is a tapeworm oozing thru the stink and corruption.
#12 – why so restrained?
There is no way a Republican can be elected to the White House, not this time around, and maybe not the next. Georgio and Company simply screwed too many pooches, and never used a condom, and that’s left the American electorate sore in all the usual orifices, plus a few nobody knew even existed.
I, like many others, was bracing for the Hillary Juggernaut, but was surprised when it seemed to stumble. I like Obama, but his age concerns me. But maybe that’s what we need, is a young mind set, instead of the ancient evils of the Bush/Cheny grab all you can get before we leave thing.
Should Obama emerge the victor, then his vice presidential choice will be an interesting one.
OK,
1/3 of the USA voted in the last few elections.
Which is about <75,000,000 people..
ARE YOU TELLING ME, OF the 4million in SC 1/8 of that number VOTED in SC??
I think this is a count of THOSE THAT SHOWED UP, from ALL the states, to BACK either party.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/45000.html
But even that 4million people. Adult and voting age, would be 3million, and STILL only 1/6 WERE ALLOWED TO VOTE..(thats RIGHT, ALLOWED)
If you were NOT democrate or republican AND registered Like ANY DOG, you DIDNT get to vote.
PS.
i wonder WHAT would happen IF 1/2 of the USA REALLY voted.
#15 – ECA
You are missing the point.
In a state where Republicans vastly outnumber Democrats, there were far more Democratic voters at the polls. This says a whole lot, things like maybe the Republicans are boycotting their own party, or they don’t like any of the candidates. Lots of Republicans that I know are just plain embarrassed of their party membership. The Democrats, on the other hand, are excited to see a trio of candidates that will move America into the 21st Century, instead of continuing to move back to the age of the Pilgrims and Plymouth rock.
Watch the number of voters that show up for each party… participation will be of paramount importance this time around.
but those numbers are ONLY registered with the PARTY.
NOT registered voters.
So, WHAT, you get to count those in your Party.
That Does NOT COUNT WHOM the NON-Registered Party members WILL VOTE FOR, which I would GUESS is over 2.5 million NOT COUNTED.
If the slagging does not stop between the Clintons and Obama, watch how fast Americans turn to McCain.
Anyone who does not think the Democrats can lose this isn’t awake.
#3, MikeN,
But the Republican race is even more of a contest, with 4 or 5 legit candidates, plus Ron Paul.
A race to the bottom.
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The lesson to be learned from this is Democrats are tired of smear tactics. After Hillary and Bill tried to tarnish Obama, her numbers reflected the negative response.
Democrats don’t want to eat their own or fall the level of Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Lee Atwater and the other repulsive scum sucking Republicans, they want to work together to build a better country. Get with the program or get left behind.
Listening to MikeN is like deja view of the 1990s all over again.
This week it’s the “Barrett Report” that is going to break loose and expose the Clintons!
When that turns out to be a Whole Lotta Nothin’ they forget all about it and go on to some other scandalous charges. They went on like that for EIGHT SOLID YEARS and the best they could do was a lie about a blow job.
The drop in Republicans could be because they became Democrats for a day. (Cross over voting.) The chance to vote against Hillary was too good to pass up.
#22 – Hmmm..You may be on to something there..?
I think I understand ECA ? You saying the Independents didn’t show because they’re still disenfranchised by the voting laws in SC ??
We can’t(ex-Dem here) vote for anyone but the Repugnant or Dumbocretin here until the general election but, I *believe* we can put our choice on the ballot during the prelims.
I really like Ron Paul but, I suppose Obama will have to do ?
If it weren’t for the fact I can probably make a living from my garden, I’d immgrate to Russia, I hear their version of the Mafia is lucrative and hiring..
(it’s a t.i.c guys, only a t.i.c.)
The joke, known as Democracy, seems to be working as planned.
Just like a dog chasing it’s own tail, fat, stupid and lazy Americans get pissed off at one corporate owned criminal party and then vote for a candidate in the other corporate owned criminal party.
The corporate status quo is maintained and a real coup, such as a third party candidate being elected, is averted.
Divide and conquer… that’s the name of the game.
bill said
I don’t know about you. but I am desperate to get rid of these clown in or so called ‘government’.
Throw the bums out.
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LOL… and put new bums in. So what?
It’s all a joke anyway.
“They went on like that for EIGHT SOLID YEARS and the best they could do was a lie about a blow job.’
I don’t think the blow job was a lie. I really believe it happend. I maybe wrong but I think Bill got disbared for something. Might have been a lie.
Not only in South Carolina, but in every primary so far, Democrats have turned out more voters that Republicans.
No surprise to me. The Republicans, have two of the oldest men in politics running, Willard, St. Rudy of 9/11, a sleeping actor, and a Huckleberry.
The choices for Democrats are much better. The difference between the two leading candidates is not much, and it seems that the only candidate who is actually saying anything different, is in third. The ones who have actually done anything against the current administration, have dropped out to continue to do the work of WE THE PEOPLE.
Yeah I guess Mike Huckabee became governor when the Lieutenant Governor resigned about a lie about a blowjob. Those FBI files on prominent republicans being in the White House, just a lie about a blowjob, and you wouldn’t care if Dick Cheney did the same thing. Those missing emails and hard disk wipes, you wouldn’t care if the Republicans did the same thing…Oh wait.
Then again I think Nixon’s real crime wasn’t watergate but his sending the IRS after political enemies.
#26,
That doesn’t change the fact that Paula Jones, never actually met Bill Clinton, and that her whole lawsuit was based upon a lie. And David Brock and every one else involved has since confirmed, Paula Jones never actually met Bill Clinton.
I mean, even Ken Star has admitted the whole thing was about politics, and little to do with law or facts.
Which by the way, he was never actually disbarred… He had his law license suspended, which is not disbarment.
So you have proven, you don’t even have the minimal facts right on the case, so why do we care what you say about it again? Oh I don’t, and neither does America.