Democrats Out Voting Republicans in Primaries

This is a very interesting statistic, and one that is not good for the GOP. So far, there have been two contested Republican primaries and one contested Republican caucus where individual votes were counted. Those are Iowa, New Hampshire, and Michigan. In those three contests, according to CNN's Election Central, the total number of Republicans votes was 867,136.

On the Democratic side, there has been two contests where individual votes were counted Those were New Hampshire and Michigan. In Iowa the Democratic Party reported the number of delegates that each candidate won at the district level, but does not release individual votes. In those two contests the total number of Democratic votes was 877,082. In other words, the total number of Democratic voters in two races exceeded the number of Republican voters in three races. Not only was the total bigger, but in Michigan Obama and Edwards weren't on the ballot and Clinton didn't campaign.

Quite frankly these figures indicate that rank and file Republicans don't have the saem enthusiam and intensity that rank and file Democrats have about the 2008 elections. Six years of Bush, of a war that seems neverending, of budget deficits, of incompetence. of constitutional violations, have weakened the Republican Party. Couldn't have happened to a better group of people.