And maybe Ohio?
Before the primary yesterday, I was hearing anecdotal evidence about Republicans voting in the Dem primary. And, looking back at how things stacked up in previous primaries, I was ready to predict that Obama would take Texas pretty easily, since the crossover independents were swinging his way.
Seems as maybe I forgot about the Limbaugh Effect.
UPDATE II: An e-mailer to the Corner has the most persuasive evidence yet. An astounding number of voters took Democratic ballots, voted for president, then left the rest of their ballots blank.
The undercount in the D primary was almost 700,000 ballots out of 2.86 million. By contrast, the undercount in the R primary was about 164,000 ballots out of 1.38 million. In the 2004 general election, the dropoff from president to railroad commissioner (the next race on the state ballot) was less than 400,000 out of 7.4 million.
It's reasonable to assume many of these voters were "screw the Dems" Limbaugh listeners.
I'm surprised that there isn't more analysis of this yet... but I guess it's all pretty fresh, and people are still poring over the numbers. I'm not one of those.
I'd just like to give us Obama fans one more thing to hang some hope on: the Pennsylvania primary is a closed primary. All other things aside, if there's any truth to the numbers in the linked article, then Obama has a 'hidden' several percent advantage going into Pennsylvania.