Posts Tagged ‘Michigan Primary Election 2012’

Michigan Exit Polls High Conservative turnout and Democrats voting in GOP Primary

A divided Republican base is defining the Michigan GOP primary today, with Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum again playing to competing wings of the electorate.  Santorum, in particular, is seeking advantage among strongly conservative voters. But perhaps controversially, one in 10 voters in the open primary are another stripe entirely – Democrats. That’s off their peak – 17 percent in 2000, when Democrats tipped the open primary to John McCain – but enough, potentially, to influence the outcome. Ideologically, six in 10 voters in Michigan today describe themselves as conservative, evenly split between “very” and “somewhat” conservative. Preliminary exit poll results indicate that very conservatives, a group on which Santorum has focused his efforts, may account for a [...]