Total votes by candidate: Hillary 8,668,136 Trump 7,548,429 Sanders 6,131,951 Cruz 5,484,494

[Liberal_in_LA]

Overall vote
Republicans 20,375,925
Democrats 15,070,178

By candidate
Clinton 8,668,136
Trump 7,548,429
Sanders 6,131,951
Cruz 5,484,494
Rubio 3,394,134
Kasich 2,725,327
Carson 677,307
Bush 249,894
O'Malley 94,692

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/19/471102628/yes-clintons-gotten-the-most-votes-but-gop-has-more-overall

[Democat]

1. Please delete this thread, clearly it must be wrong

The media tells us that people are only excited about Trump.

[davidn3600]

7. Republicans are 5 million votes ahead

How is that a good thing?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. It's not, but nor is it a bad one.

Primary turnout doesn't correlate with election results, so it's not cause to be concerned.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/primary-turnout-means-nothing-for-the-general-election/

All it's showing is that the Republican primary is much closer and more open than the Democratic one is, which we already knew.

[LiberalElite]

2. Sanders gets the independents - and some primaries are closed. Nice try nt

[Sancho]

3. Are you saying people in closed states don't know how to register by party?

I don't think any states require party membership by birth...and I seriously doubt most people who are interested don't know who the candidates are at this point.

Hillary has the most votes, because the most people have voted for her so far. Everyone was free to change parties or participate in whatever way their primary rules allowed.

Here in the Sun Belt, Hillary is winning "independents". If we had an open primary in Florida, Hillary would have won big anyway.

[LiberalElite]

9. No, I am not saying people don't know how

to register by party. Independents are increasing on both sides because they are fed up with both parties. In most other places Sanders wins independents and they can vote for him where there are open primaries. Yes, they can change registrations to be able to vote in a primary but in my state it's not so easy - the change in registration doesn't take effect until the next election.

[Vinca]

4. If all Republicans turn up to vote GOP, we're screwed.

[Bonn1997]

8. 538 had an article arguing that primary turnout isn't predictive of general election turnout.

Primary turnout is just an indication of how competitive the primary is.

[Vinca]

10. That may be true, but so far it seems like a whole lot of very unexcited Democratic voters . . .

or nonvoters. That's the fear.

[DemocraticWing]

5. The Republicans have gotten more votes so far

I think that will change some with the back half of the calendar. Lots of blue states left to vote, like New York and California. So far the entire South has voted.

[mikehiggins]

6. Maybe my math is off but it looks like 4 to 3, favor CLinton.

Pretty good, considering the two people involved.

An obscure balding Senator from Vermont vs the most famous woman in the world?

An aging Jew largely ignored and dismissed by the media and the party?

I could go on.

Somebody, to quote Ayn Rand, should check her premises.