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There are TWO, not just one, primary race in Wisconsin, so the crossover vote is a little skewed. Wisconsin has, for years, maintained an “open” primary, in which anyone may vote for a member of EITHER political party. Wisconsin does not maintain a registry of “Republican” or “Democrat”, as do many other states.

But this is the complication: The crossover vote, from Democrats, is constrained by the very real struggle between Bernie Sanders, an avowed and openly Socialist, that would normally be the overwhelming favorite of the “Progressives” that make up the vast majority of the Wisconsin Democrat party, and Herself, potentially the “first” gender-specific candidate to run in a major political party, and by whom these same Progressives are faced with supporting out of almost religious loyalty to “equality”. What to do, what to do. There is no opportunity for them to try to skew the results in the Republican primary, as they have done so very many times before, so they cease to be much of a factor this time.

But the Republicans are equally constrained from crossover, as they must decide whether to go for the provisionally-accepted Ted Cruz as the “establishment” candidate (which he assuredly is NOT), or for The Donald, vehemently opposed by, of all people, the Koch Brothers. John Kasich would seem to be the “compromise” candidate here, as Marco Rubio is no longer a factor, and Scott Walker was long gone before even the first caucus in Iowa.

Curiouser and curiouser.