Thursday, April 24, 2008

Josh Marshall says it well

We've addressed this before, and now we're going to link to Talking Points Memo addressing it again: trying to correlate primary results with general election results makes no sense. People who vote in primaries are almost always going to vote for their party's candidate in the general election.

Yes, they get all hot headed and claim that they won't -- I myself used to say that I would vote for McCain if it came down to him vs. Clinton (I've now retreated to thinking I would abstain rather than make that Solominic choice, and come November would probably, if morosely, vote for Clinton. Though I would almost certainly leave the Democratic party, of which I have been a member only since the primary).

But really, Democratic candidated will get the vast majority of the committed, primary-voting Democrats. What matters is who draws the rest of the voters better. And I think the answer to that is pretty clear.

JEK
Really can't believe how much people go in for spin.

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