We've got people who vote GOP out of habit, but they're NOT wingnuts. My town was hit very hard by a National Guard call-up in 2004, with two young fathers not coming back. These people hate the war with a passion and feel betrayed by anyone who voted for it. There is no way in hell these guys voted for Hillary-I will personally vouch for it.

a special kind of Hillary-hatin' man to vote for her -- no matter what the perceived tactical advantage of doing so.

We're seeing just as many Republicans voting for Obama because they don't want to even take a chance that Hillary could win in November.

Politics here are far more light-hearted. The last, and only that I can think of, games in elections were when Fred Tuttle overwhelmingly won in the Republican primary a few years back over Jack McMillions (not his real name, but what he became known by), who thought he could move to Vermont, run on his millions, get the nomination, and then challenge Pat Leahy.

Tuttle won despite spending no money and despite, during the primary, endorsing Leahy. They then campaigned together on a civic platform all about getting people to vote - oh, and to vote for Leahy because Fred had no interest in leaving his farm for Washington.

Other that that, we don't play games with our elections. :-)

Vermonters do not vote by what Rush says - even on the right.

And we do not have what the rest of the country calls the "right." Conservatives in Vermont are traditional, old school Republicans. I think the last neocon in Vermont was Professor Kaufmann up at UVM, and he got run out of state eventually, and he's teaching at Pepperdine now.

(Which is a shame, by the way - I had him, and he was a great professor...)