Michael Barone applies his electoral expertise to this week’s Michigan and Missouri primaries and comes up with an analysis for the Washington Examiner:
The big news is that in both states nearly twice as many voters chose to participate in the Republican primary as in the Democratic primary. …
Another way to look at it: Republicans won 66% of the two-party vote in Michigan and 65% of the two-party vote in Missouri. Quite a contrast from the 2008 presidential election, in which Barack Obama carried Michigan 57%-41% and lost Missouri by the extremely narrow margin of 0.2%.
After offering much more detail, Barone concludes that the numbers are “dreadful” for Obama Democrats.
