Who's Been Voting for Them?

Mullings An American Cyber Column By Rich Galen

Here's what I don't understand.

I have been told, and have retold, the theory that people who vote in primaries - Republican and Democrat - are far to the right and left of the total members of their respective political parties.

That those who actually come out to vote are the true believers. The most righteous of the Right, and the most, uh, lefteous of the Left.

Yet, here were are in 2016.

The most loyal members of the Democrat party are voting for Hillary Clinton over the most Liberal choice, Bernie Sanders.

The most loyal members of the Republican party are voting for Donald Trump over the most Conservative choice, Ted Cruz.

As every 2nd tier stand-up comedian of the past 20 years might have said: What's up with that?

Nationally, according to the most recent USA Today/Suffolk University poll, Donald Trump's Fave/Unfave was 28.2 - 61.4.

But.

Hillary Clinton's Fave/Unfave in that same poll was 37.4 - 54.2.

Seven percentage points better, but not exactly Doris Day numbers.

So, if neither Clinton nor Trump is the most Liberal nor the most Conservative, and if a wide swath of the American public hates their guts; who the hell has been voting for them?

Read on!