[Republican data here, Democratic data here]
• First, let's begin with actual results. With 95% of the vote reported, the current tallies show a total of 1,655,220 Democratic votes and 1,872,684 Republican votes. Every Republican fought as hard as he could for the win in Florida. The Democrats—since the DNC won't seat Florida's delegates because they flouted the schedule—didn't really compete in the state, with only Hillary Clinton making any campaign appearances, and none of our folks spending any significant money. Yet with this possibly the make-or-break contest for the Republicans and a probably meaningless "contest" for the Democrats, 47% of the people who cast ballots in Florida voted for a Democrat. Hillary Clinton received over a 100,000 more votes than John McCain, Barack Obama got almost as many votes as Mitt Romney, and John Edwards wasn't far behind Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee.
• It's hard to draw many conclusions from the Democratic exit poll. Only Hillary Clinton did any campaigning in the state, and even her campaign operation was minuscule compared to other states actually being contested events in the state, and she didn't run an actual campaign operation like she has in the contested states. The Democratic turnout was the most skewed we've seen so far: 59% female, only 41% male. Women voted 54% for Clinton, 31% for Obama and 13% for Edwards. And it was also the oldest turnout we've seen so far; 28% of Democratic voters were 65 or older. Voters 65 and older gave Clinton 59%, with Obama getting just 24% and Edwards 13%. But with voters 18 to 64, Clinton—despite being the only candidate to contest visit the state—got just 45% to Obama's 37%, with Edwards pulling in 11%. That 50% of voters came out to vote for candidates who refused to campaign in their state and say the state's delegates should not be sat at the convention, and that a majority of the voters under 64 voted for someone other than Clinton are statistics that probably don't give the Clinton campaign a ton of confidence going in to Super Tuesday.
• Going in to this contest, it was generally thought that McCain and Giuliani would be competing for one bloc of votes, while Romney would be competing with Huckabee for the more socially conservative/fundie vote. It appears that Huckabee hurt Romney more than Giuliani hurt McCain. Voters who think abortion should be legal were 43% of the electorate. 45% of them voted for McCain, 26% for Romney, 19% for Giuliani, and only 5% for Huckabee. But those voters who think abortion should be illegal split their vote much more evenly: 35% for Romney, 29% for McCain, 21% for Huckabee and 10% for Giuliani. A similar divide is seen with church attendance. Romney won among voters who attend church monthly and weekly. McCain won among those who attend seldom or never. But in the 17% of the electorate that attends church more than once a week, Huckabee won big.
• 68% of the Republican primary voters have a positive view of the Bush administration. Romney won among these base Republicans, but not by a lot; McCain and Huckabee also did OK among that group. But among the 32% of the voters who are angry with the Bush administration—and some of them are probably angry that Bush hasn't been more extreme on issues like spending and immigration—McCain won 45%, with Romney only at 23. Interestingly, 7% of this group gave their vote to Ron Paul.
[UPDATE: I made a mistake in saying that Hillary Clinton was the only candidate to do an event in Florida. Apparently Barack Obama also did an event. I stand corrected. However, it is true that while Hillary Clinton did not physically campaign in the state, hers is the only campaign flouting Howard Dean and the DNC in saying that Florida's delegates should be seated at the convention, a position she rejected until after the Iowa Caucuses and New Hampshire primary. So while it is true that she did not campaign in Florida, and while it is true that she is not the only candidate to do an event in Florida--both claims I erroneously made in this post, and which I acknowledge were wrong--it is also true that hers is the only campaign that explicitly appealed to Florida voters by arguing that despite the fact that Florida voluntarily broke DNC rules in scheduling their primary before Super Tuesday, that they should not be sanctioned by having their delegates denied status at the national convention. Thus, she is claiming tonight as a win, while the Obama and Edwards campaigns are denying that tonight was a contest.