Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100202:14:25:00
A 1 million vote difference, that enthusiasm gap. that was a big deal and told us a lot about the general election. 2006, democrats had just a 200,000 vote advantage in the primaries over republicans. as you can see here, just 950,000 voters, 736, there wasn't any competitive democratic state primaries. 2004, barack obama's first campaign in the senate. look at this number. it was almost a 2 to 1 advantage for democrats over republicans, 1.2 million turned out for that primary, and only 662,000 showed up in the republican primary. we're watching these numbers carefully. more democrats are goin...