Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Another view of the turnout figures

Turnout in Ohio looks like it will come close to matching the general election turnout for the Democratic Party. Of course, there hasn't been a real race for a week or three on the Republican side, so there is bound to be less incentive to turn out.

Turnout in Texas is hard to estimate, since they are reporting early voting in a very strange (and unexplained) way --- so the count of 40% of precincts reporting is hard to extrapolate from. Still, there's already well over 1.6 million votes counted, and in the last general election the Republicans only got 4.5 million --- with their home son on the ticket!

In Vermont, turnout on the D side is likely to be about 150,000 --- or better than 80% of the last general election on the D side: in Rhode Island by comparison, curiously, the excitement was lacking -- it is only at about 65% of the last general election Democratic turnout. Why, it's down there with California!

Yours, crunching numbers,
N.

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