Posts on ‘February 6th, 2008’

The real news out of this big multi-state primary came today, thanks to Air America’s Rachel Maddow: In the states where both parties held primaries, total Democratic turnout was a staggering 73 percent greater than total Republican participation.
In actual numbers, that translates to (as best we can recall) Democrats voting 14.7 million strong, while only 8.4 million Republicans took part.