And he’s the only one (except maybe for Paul) who approves of civil unions. Could be a large part of the crossover vote.
Another factor in the growing disaster of the open primary, in addition to the ones I’ve mentioned on a previous thread:
There is a growing interest in politics at election time.
I’ve been through many elections, and I have watched the growing trend of even the most jaded and distracted people suddenly becoming political pundits at election time. They do not watch politics full-time, as we at Free Republic and many others do. They only become engaged when the election is the hot news story, as they do with other hot news stories. So they are basically uneducated and are voting their hearsay-informed peer-value views.
I can always tell when one of them is talking, even before they reveal the depth of their ignorance: they switch willy-nilly to the football score or Beyonce’s baby. They are more interested in keeping up an entertaining monologue than they are in the issues.
I suppose this is a good thing in a way, as some of them may “graduate” to full-time obsession with the world outside of sports and celebrities. We can only hope so. And that they won’t infantilize politics too badly in the meantime.
...and a large part of the cross-dressing vote as well!