An email:

Has anyone at NRO — or anywhere else to your knowledge — attempted to put the Democratic primary votes into a mathematical/demographic context? That is, to calculate and compare the Democrat turnout in each primary and caucus state to 1.) the number of registered Democrats in each state and 2.) its total population. I can’t recall the number, but I remember being astonished at how few votes it took for Dennis Kucinich to register 37% of the vote in Hawaii.
All the stuff we’ve been fed by the media about an energized base and record turnouts sounds like so much hooey to me given the lack of enthusiasm for John Kerry I see among my Democratic acquaintances. It would be interesting to quantify and at least see then, by state and in the aggregate, just how few votes had to be scored by a “runaway” nominee in a truncated primary season.