Freepers gaming the system comprise an insignificant sliver. Also they cancel each other out, since as many are voting for Hillary as for Obama. This article is not about them, but about sincere Republicans who are supporting Obama.
We might as well face it that there are going to be a lot of them. The only hope is that McCain can pick off as many crossover Dems.
I agree about the article. But I have serious doubts about the implication that crossover Republicans are split between Obama and Hillary.
I just got back from early voting. I saw a great many locals (we're in a small town) who I know are Republicans taking Demo ballots. I couldn't query them at the polling place, of course. But, prior to voting, I'd compared notes with quite a few. They were reasoning as I did, and voting for Obama in the primary.
In Texas, there's nothing to change or nothing to affect, if one votes in the Republican presidential primary. But, if a Republican votes Obama in the Demo primary, as a good many of my friends and I are doing, then it drives the stake into Hillary's campaign just a little deeper with each vote.