Wrong again. The Deomcrat voters were interviewed and pointed out that they voted for Santorum. Romney or Gingrich were not even mentioned by any of them.
And you're believing what they say translates into that 6-8% you're touting here?
You got a link for that? It's not in the blog you posted here. And in the exits for Arizona and Michigan, while Santorum did the best with democrats, all the candidates got votes from democrats, and the total democrat vote matched the 2008 race.
BTW, and I'm sure you actually know this, because you aren't as clueless as you might sound trying to sell this last-gasp effort to "explain" why voters aren't flocking to Newt, but people actually DO switch parties all the time, because a lot of people really aren't all that into "party", they just like to vote, and they move back and forth depending on where the action is.
In some circles, we call this "reaching out to disaffected democrats", and "expanding the party base". And sure, some people take time out of their busy schedule to show up and vote for someone they hate in the hopes they might win a nomination and be easier to beat.
But in an election where we can barely get REPUBLICANS to take the time to vote to remove Obama, it is absurd to think that a significant number of democrats are more motivated to make sure a weak republican gets our nomination than there are republicans motivated to give a few hundred more votes to Newt.