re: #347 Thanos

Initial exit polling had more conservatives voting Obama than Liberals voting for McCain. I don’t remember the exact numbers or percents, but it would have made the election a dead heat or win for McCain if they hadn’t crossed over. It’s a concern that they did, I’d love to know Powell’s reasoning and theirs so we can make sure it doesn’t happen in 2012.

That’s interesting, but bear in mind that more people self-identify as ‘conservative’ rather than as ‘liberal’, in part because of the successful demonisation of the word ‘liberal’. This doesn’t cross over into party affiliation— there are people that always vote or are registered Democrat, but call themselves ‘conservative’.