Exit polls show signs that Limbaugh’s minions turned out for Clinton
Nick Juliano
Rush Limbaugh would like little more than to see Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama keep fighting each other for at least the next month, if not until the Democratic Convention itself.
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Indiana exit polls showed that four in ten Democrats who said they would vote for McCain over Clinton in a general election nonetheless voted for Clinton on Tuesday; however, just twelve percent who would vote for McCain over Obama voted for the Illinois senator.
Citing this figure, the Obama campaign sent an e-mail to reporters Tuesday night arguing that 7 percent of the Indiana electorate could be attributed to the “Limbaugh effect” — 41 percent of the 17 percent who said they’d vote for McCain over Clinton but still supported Clinton.
A similar discrepancy was evident in North Carolina exit polls.lina exit polls. [more]