Forty percent of poll respondents who called themselves conservative or very conservative said they voted for Romney compared to 27 percent for McCain, 15 percent for Huckabee and 13 percent for Giuliani.

Among those who said they are politically moderate, 41 percent opted for McCain, followed by 22 percent for Giuliani, 19 percent for Romney and 9 percent for Huckabee.

Among Democrats, both self-styled liberals and moderates were leaning toward New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. She garnered 55 percent of moderates who were polled, compared to 28 percent for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and 15 percent for former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.

Among liberals, Clinton got 53 percent of the vote, with Obama getting 36 percent and Edwards garnering 9 percent of those votes.

but there is already a thread.

MIAMI — What a strange situation we’re facing here in Florida today.

No Democratic delegates (there would be 210) will come out of this primary — at least not as long as the Democratic National Committee adheres to its penalty rules because the state moved its contest up so early. And only half (57) of the state’s Republican delegates will be counted, conforming to the national G.O.P.’s decision for the same reason.
And while the Republican candidates have criss-crossed this vast, populous state intensively for the last 10 days since the party’s South Carolina primary, no Democratic candidate has been able to campaign here for months because they signed a pledge to only campaign in the four early states. (Aside from fund-raising and an Obama cable TV ad in the last week.)

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is due to descend on Davie, Fla., tonight. She has been leading in the state’s polls here. And having lost the South Carolina primary, coming out ahead here may perhaps give her a boost, however ephemeral given the nature of the absentee campaigns on the Democratic side.

The Clinton campaign, in a conference call billed as “Why Florida Matters” just a short while ago, wants it known that it now believes Florida’s delegates should be seated at the convention. (She released a statement to this effect just last week.) Asked why the campaign hadn’t urged for such a move before, Howard Wolfson, one of the senator’s top advisers, said, “I think there was a widespread expectation when the D.N.C. made its decision that voters in Florida would not participate.”
The campaign says it doesn’t envision any situation in which the delegates from Florida and Michigan aren’t seated at the party’s national convention next summer. Aides said they didn’t talk about this earlier, when Michigan voters went to the polls because only Senator Clinton of the major Democratic candidates was on the ballot there.
There are some interesting permutations here that could alter the landscape later on for Florida voters. The state’s leaders could decide to hold an alternative process — like caucuses we hear — sometime later this winter/spring. (Imagine yet another vote in Florida!) If it were held within the accepted time frame of all the other state’s primaries, those delegates would be recognized.
We’ve asked for comment from the D.N.C.’s chairman Howard Dean on the import of today’s voter turnout here and what that says about all the rule-making. Meanwhile, Karen Finney, the spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, pointed today to the party’s rules for the convention as she reiterated that there are no delegates at stake here today.
A credentials committee will meet this summer, and it could decide to take up the matter of seating the Florida and Michigan delegations. So, it’s still possible — possible — that these big delegations could be a force at the convention, and in fact, some Florida voters believe that will ultimately be the case.
As for complaints that these votes being tallied today should count toward delegates, she said the process for states “has been very transparent and very clear. Florida was notified in August that their plan was in noncompliance.” (The state’s Democratic leaders lost a lawsuit over this point, too.)
After all, most other states followed the rules and didn’t move up their primaries before the Feb. 5 marker next Tuesday.
Asked whether the Clinton campaign made a mistake in signing the early state pledge, Mr. Wolfson said, “I think all the candidates would agree that the situation that we find ourselves in vis-à-vis Michigan and Florida is unfortunate …” And one, he added, that anyone would want to avoid in the future, given how engaged voters seem to be here and elsewhere.
Yeah, imagine how intense the campaign would’ve been here — with its usually rich number of delegates — had the candidates all descended on the state after Mr. Obama’s big win in South Carolina. The Clinton aides dismissed the idea that her popularity here rested on name recognition, given that there hasn’t been an all-out campaign. People are paying attention to the national media coverage and to the debates, they added.
One journalist asked whether the 400,000-plus early/absentee ballots on the Democratic side merely reflected a shift in the way people are voting, as opposed to a strong sign of record turnout today. While it’s possible that that explains it partially, the aides believe it’s a harbinger — as has been turnout in other states on the Democratic side — of deep engagement in the primary process.
Now several times, Mr. Wolfson and Mark Penn, the campaign strategist, likened what’s happening in Florida to what will happen on Feb. 5 — to a national primary. And several times, they hit the Obama campaign for “violating” that early-state pledge by going up last week with a biographical ad on national cable, that of course appears here in Florida, too.
So far, the Obama campaign has so far not pushed for Florida’s votes to count toward delegate selection.
Of course, as another journalist suggested, it’s certainly not going to hurt that Mrs. Clinton will get national media coverage tonight for her rally — when she’s thanking those Sunshine State residents who voted for her even if their votes don’t count at this point — because so much television attention will be focused on the Republican primary here. And that’s certainly helpful going into next week’s Super Tuesday.
Whether anyone can really count the Democratic vote here as a win. Or not.

Romney - 36,974
McCain - 31,606

Any idea what % of precincts this is?

The dems were stupid. This wouldn't be a big deal if the norm happened, and the race was about over by now. But everything is messed up, and every single delegate matters, and now two huge states have no say what so ever.

Way to alienate your base! Hillary is very smart for reaching out to the state.

Should have done what the Republicans did, unseat some of the delegates, but let the others count. Win, win for everyone.

Is Florida winner take all, or split?

And I agree, she does need the state, but anyone does. It's a huge state when it comes to the general election, a swing state with a ton of electoral votes. Either way, I think it's a very smart move by her.

Oh man, it looks like it could all be over for the Republicans tonight.

I don't know how I feel about all this!