Yesterday’s Other Primary - Political Opinion

A one would expect, turnout in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary was far higher than the Republican turnout. With a handful of precincts still yet to report, we have 2,280,870 Democratic votes and only 791,205 Republican votes. But check out the percentages:

99.34% precincts reporting.

McCain 72.7
Paul 15.9
Huckabee 11.4

Over a quarter of the Republicans who showed up voted against their certain nominee, John McCain. Combined with the Republicans’ failure to defeat Democratic Travis Childers in heavily Republican MS-01, what we see is a Republican party with some serious problems.

Some will argue that Republican weakness means that there’s no damage being done by Hillary Clinton staying in a contest she can’t win. That’s not true, especially when one considers the tremendous opportunity costs being paid by not running exclusively against a weakened John McCain. But it is heartening to see that while we’re missing an opportunity to pound John McCain early and work toward exposing him to the American people as anything but a reforming “maverick,” there are at least some serious weaknesses in the Republican brand, and some evident dissatisfaction among Republicans with their presumptive nominee.

Source Daily Kos

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