Except you assume it's always conservative voters who are doing that, when the reality is usually the opposite. For example, in the 2004 election, some of the liberal city captains/volunteers in the county Bush/Cheney team quit in the week before the election, so they could focus on Steve Poisner's Assembly campaign. That meant certain key areas were abandoned without time to find a replacement, so that they "evil conservatives" had to fill in as best they could. The "evil conservatives" worked their butts off until the polls closed at 8 pm, while the liberals were spending the day planning a victory party. The conservatives did all that despite their misgivings about a lot of policies, just so they could be blamed for everything that goes wrong by the likes of you.
This proves my point -- it's not "liberal Republicans" but people who have the temerity to call themselves conservatives who voted for Angelides:
80% of Conservatives voted for Arnold
16% of Conservatives voted for Angelides !!!
92% of Republicans voted for Arnold
5% of Republicans voted for Angelides.
What this demonstrates is that a sizable fraction of the third party / "independent" types who claim to be conservatives, are indeed DICCs (Democrats in Conservative Clothing).
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