Florida is actually the purest result so far: no campaigning, no spin

no campaigning or spin from anyone (except for Obama's advertising).

So Florida voters made up their minds based on what they know about the candidates, what they've seen at the debates, and what their hearts and minds told them to do.

Nobody campaigned there.

Nobody tried to spin them.

No town hall meetings and hordes of media harrassing voters.

Just people's unvarnished votes.

The result?

Clinton carried the state with 50% of the vote, 17% more than her nearest opponent.

OSCAMA can kiss California and New York goodbye.

expected to be counted? We'll never know.

eom

Not enough to have made a difference.

more Democrats voted than Republicans. Dems turned out to vote, even though they knew it wouldn't count.

was not the only thing on the ballot - so Dems turned up to vote for those things too

AND Clinton got a blow out because she has HUGE name recognition. That is why she has been consistently polling so high nationally forever - up until recently when campaigning began in earnest.

I do think that she will probably be the nominee - but I do believe that neither of them will beat McCain....

It was somewhat refreshing.

:woohoo:

She did horrible by comparison, and her opponents didn't even campaign in the state

Worth repeating.

And Hillary damn near broke her high heel in speeding to break her pledge.

Nobody (on the Dem side) came and talked to us. They shut us out instead. Sure, the dipshit R party ran ads (Rudy, Mittens, McCain) but we heard nothing from the Dems. All we got was what was fucking fed to us by Fox, CNN, MSNBC. You had to seek information out to get any brand of the truth.

This is the epitome of spin. The worst kind.

Let's keep our primary system "pure" and not let the candidates actually speak directly to the voters.

n/t

is it some backwoods part of America that doesn't know who Barack Obama and John Edwards are?

meeting a candidate in person and hearing their views? Sorry but MSM is only going to supply you with what they want you to hear.

They would have to be to not have seen the media swooning all over Obama the past few months!

Puh-leaze!

This Florida thing has caused some to be totally irrational. I don't understand it!
If Obama had won I'm sure they'd be all over this place whooping it up!

it makes no sense

it doesn't have any bearing on what the result of a true election would hold. A true election would include the campaigns, spin, media, etc. (for better or worse). There's just not much to be read from those numbers.
Just my $0.02.
KJ

HRC is a former first lady who everyone knew. Obama is a "BLACK MAN" (emphasis on the color of his skin) from Chicago who just had a nasty e-mail smear sent out calling him a radical Muslim.

Yeah OK Florida is the purest :sarcasm:

Everybody knew the election counted for no delegates.
This affected the Turnout in indisputable ways.

This Primary result is not indicative of anything.

Everything spun through the media is "no spin" to you?

Not to take anything away from Sen. Clinton - who should be congratulated for the win - this is not a pure result given that voters knew their votes probably wouldn't count. This surely affected the turnout.

I also don't believe that campaigning "taints" a race. Moreover, it's not like the Florida voters weren't exposed to campaigning - they weren't isolated on an island with no access to cable television or the internet - so they weren't immune from "spin" and the result is hardly pure.

I'm happy that Clinto won - I support all of the candidates and am happy when any of them win - but I think it's a little silly to try to turn the Florida results into something they aren't.

unless you watch the news evry day or know something about politics, Florida democrats (who are not political) have been walking around in blind oblivion...

It was name recognition, that's all.

Is there anything you won't attempt to spin?

have the advantage there.

:eyes:

Florida has a lot of seniors.

End of story

I gotta stop looking over here, I swear.