Dem primary numbers were at real historic lows even next to Republican turnout when John Francois ran in 2000 versus W. Yet he garnered 54 million votes in the general election (2nd most votes for anyone for president in US history, Yes even more than Reagan got over Mondale in 1984). Your premise is highly flawed at best and is a reflection of your own sophmorish thinking. In general primaries are not good indicators of the general election in November that counts when you elect the real McCoy.
Real sophisticated argumentation there, Darth.
The Dims were not excited about their candidates in the primary, and they still came back and almost whipped us in the general, because they hated Bush, who we loved at the time. Now the Dims are whipped up, and they’re coming back to knock off a Bush surrogate, that we not only are not excited about, but who many of us see as an agent of a coup, designed to take the party down a road that we don’t wish to travel.
The analogy between the two elections is simplistic and misleading.