<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/41d11789-a7f5-4645-ac27-b7dec38974c1/095BF8DC-98D4-4AFE-BB4B-D1BF5564D838/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/rush-to-judgment/index.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss" href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/rush-to-judgment/index.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss" style="font-size: 11px;">opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/rush-to-judgment/index.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><H2 class="post-title">Rush to Judgment</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/rush-to-judgment/index.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><P>A reader at The Plank, The New Republic’s staff blog, has done some interesting figuring from the exit polls to come up with a plausible measure of the “Limbaugh effect” (the number of Republican voters who are strategically voting for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as part of Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos”) in Indiana. Relying on data from CNN.com, <A target="new" href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/05/06/measuring-the-limbaugh-effect.aspx#comments" linkindex="38" set="yes">“Sdemuth” writes</A>: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/rush-to-judgment/index.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><P> Asked about a McCain-Clinton general election, 17 percent of the polled said they’d vote for McCain. 41 percent of that 17 percent, or 7 percent of the polled people chose Clinton over Obama. So 7 percent of the people polled voted for Clinton in the primary, but [would] not vote for her in the general.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/rush-to-judgment/index.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><P>You can do the math on the same question for Obama — it’s on the next page of the link. You get 19 percent voting for McCain over Obama, and 12 percent of that 19 percent choosing Obama over Clinton, so 2.3 percent voted for Obama in the primary, but would not in the general.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/095BF8DC-98D4-4AFE-BB4B-D1BF5564D838/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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