Indiana, North Carolina Primaries Today
 Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Well, its May 6th, the day that Indiana and North Carolina voters head to the polls for their primary elections, for both the Democratic and Republican Parties.  This month will also see Nebraska's primary and West Virginia's (May 13th), Kentucky and Oregon (May 20th), and the Republican primary for Idaho on May 27th.

Every state is different, so this probably no indication, but last month's Pennsylvania primary results were:  for the Democrats, Hillary Clinton received 54.6% of the vote, and 85 estimated national delegates; Barack Obama received 45.4% of the vote and an estimated 73 national delegates.  For the Republicans, John McCain received 73% of the vote and 74 delegates; Ron Paul was next with 16% of the vote, but no delegates.

Though McCain was labeled the presumptive nominee for the GOP back in March, and the National Republican Party hopes to make all primaries since then irrelevant, its worth noting that the amount of Republicans who turned out in PA to vote against John McCain numbered 220,000:  larger than the margin that separated Democratic voters between Clinton and Obama (215,000).

The final month of primaries, in June, will have Montana, New Mexico (Republican only) and South Dakota heading to the polls.

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