Updemocrats down. The trends for the two parties since 2008 in this state show a significant drop in democratic voter participationwhile gop voters continue to turn out in greater numbers. 2008 of course, a good year for the democrats here with the first contest between Hillary Clinton and a relative newcomer named barack obama. About 23 per cent of democrats go to the pollsalmost 20 per cent of republicans. In 2012thenpresident obama firmly in command and there was no democratic primary here as he sought and eventually won his second term. South Carolina Republicans managed to grow their turnout by a couple of pointsin the year they chose former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and snapped their string of picking a candidate who went on to win the partys nomination. This year, continued expansion of gop participationa sharp rise of almost four per cent with just over 25 per cent voting. A level of enthusiasm likely driven in some part by the trump candidacy. Democrats meanwhiledropped dram
Some major victories scored for 2016 president ial frontrunners democrat Hillary Clinton, and republican donald trump. Both candidates are the projected winners in 7 states in the super tuesday contests. Heres a look at the break down of super tuesday wins. Donald trump takes alabama, arkansas, massachusetts, tennessee, georgia, virginia and vermont. Overnight ted cruz picked up a win in the alaska gop caucus. He also won his home state of texas, and took oklahoma. And florida senator, marco rubio picks up his first win in the primary contests winning overall votes in minnesota. For the democrats Hillary Clinton is the projected winner in texas, alabama, arkansas, tennessee, georgia, virginia, and now massachusetts where she nearly tied with bernie her challenger Bernie Sanders picks up a win in his home state of vermont tonight. He also picks up oklahoma, colorado and minnesota. Though trump and clinton left super tuesday as bit winners, they still face competition from within their o
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