[ScottinVA]

Trump does better in “open” primary contests where members of either party can vote

Of course he does.... it's "Operation Chaos" in reverse.

[tatown]

Zero evidence of that. I’ll go a step further and say that democrats aren’t smart enough to even pull that off.

[tgusa]

Trump barely beat Rubio (3%) in Virginia, an open state....

[buwaya]

Doubt it.
Thats a huge number of voters and “chaos” operations cant be done quietly.
And we are talking much more about Independents than Democrats.

[manc]

but it’s not because I know many who are non party voting for Trump as they are fed up.

Cruz never got one county in your state of VA which is not a good sign.

[Hugin]

it's "Operation Chaos" in reverse.

No evidence of that. For one thing Democrats have a real choice to make in their own primaries. More likely Trump draws heavily from independents who outnumber both Republicans and Democrats nationally by a wide margin.

[AFreeBird]

Or, there are a whole lot of democrat working stiffs out there that aren’t any more happy with the establishment than we are.