More primary voters voted GOP in 6 of 7 states that Clinton won

[Deny and Shred]

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results

For example, Texas saw 2.6 million vs 1.2 million. Virginia 950K vs 778K. Tennessee - 780K vs 365K.

Rollover other states at the link. Other than Massachusetts, the other six states saw many more Republicans head to the polls than Democrats on Super Tuesday. That is very troubling, and strongly suggests none of those six will go Democratic in the GE.

[redstateblues]

1. I thought Bernie was supposed to drive turnout to historic levels?

[msongs]

2. aren't you happy the revolution swept bernie to massive turnouts and wins? nt

[silvershadow]

3. Hillary won the states that won't help us win the General election. That's what happened. nt

[Ferd Berfel]

6. Keep on it

[timlot]

7. So low turnout in the states that she won don't matter.

[silvershadow]

8. They won't, not really. We usually don't win with those states. By the way, Bernie won in states

with HIGH voter turnout.

[JaneyVee]

10. Expanding the base is how you turn red states purple.

[silvershadow]

14. I'm all for expanding the base. We are decades behind now. We slid off onto the Third Way. nt

[PufPuf23]

4. What you noted and posted is important.

Clinton won the states that can be expected to go "red' / GOP in the general election.

The one exception is Massachusetts which Clinton had a narrow margin of victory.

The margins you noted are worse than I would have guessed.

[silvershadow]

9. Also note that Bernie won in states with high or higher voter turnout. nt

[JaneyVee]

11. LOL. Hillary has 1.4 million more votes than him

[silvershadow]

13. And in the end, only the delegates/lobbyists matter. nt

[JaneyVee]

15. And the popular vote. Sorry, but no coronation for Bernie.

He's gonna have to give more of an effort.

[silvershadow]

16. I was thinking he just lay down and went to sleep...but then I realized

there was a concerted effort by a vast right-wing conspiracy to shut him out in the media.

[Garrett78]

5. It's not troubling. It's to be expected.

Of course there was greater turnout of Republicans in those states. For one thing, those states have more Republicans than Democrats. For another thing, there are 5 Republican candidates, meaning there are 5 get-out-the-vote campaigns (vs. 2 for the Democrats). On top of all that, there's been much more media coverage of the Republican race for a variety of reasons.

[JaneyVee]

12. It feels great to give a dose of reality to the DU bubble.

Too bad resistance is futile.