[ConservingFreedom]

[grania:] They made the argument as a hypothetical based on NO evidence that they were doing so in the primaries. Trump has been winning over those votes in the primaries.

That statement makes no sense. It was only because of the open primaries and the Dems and independents voting for McCain and Romney that they won the nomination. So the evidence they used for their claims is the same evidence the Trump supporters use to support their claim. They wrongly assumed that the Dems and independents that came over to vote for them in the primaries would also vote for them in the general. I think the Trump supporters are making the same wrong assumption.

So tell it to grania. ;-)

[grania]

I thought the evidence was that in 2008 and 2012, dems had large numbers of primary voters, while the Republican voter numbers were way down. That's hardly evidence of a crossover. Besides that, in 2008 dems had to stay in their own primaries because of Obama vs hillary.

As far as Romney goes? He was awesomely powerful and convincing when he was running against conservatives in the Republican primaries. Then he threw the election to Obama.