At TPM HQ tonight, we’ve mainly been following the action on MSNBC. And the hosts I think have been saying that McCain basically won across the board. I’m not saying they said anything incorrect. But I thought they said that Rudy had won conservatives.
But Kevin Drum actually has some numbers up. And that’s not what happened. Among self-identified ‘conservatives’ Romney actually beat McCain 37% to 27%. And they made up 62% of the Republican voters. The key was that McCain nearly doubled Romney among the 39% of Republicans who called themselvs moderates or liberals.
