Who are those people, actually? They hate Bush so much that they think Obama will be better than Bush? Or, perhaps, they are like some Freepers, who want to see him elected either to 'teach a lesson to the Republicans' or 'let President Obama crush the presidency that people will realize how bad he is. Then, we might get a real conservative to the WH in 2012.'?
To be fair, the article really has nothing to do with Republicans voting for Obama. At best, it’s about Reagan democrats who might have been leaning that way, but are now being turned off by the Frank-like belief of Obama. That said, Novak is still wrong—there never were very many of those people except maybe in the rarified groups Novak hangs out with.