Crossover Voting is Dead

[KCDem]

I think last night proves this if nothing else. Discuss.

[Boston Bread]

It's not dead in democratic states. Southerners have become polarized against Obama yet northeasterners still swing as if the republican party was still its pre-Gingrich state. It's asymmetric, like American politics as a whole.
GOP->DEM crossover voting exists still, but it is no longer something we can expect from any region or state. Democrats have to fight as hard for an R+5 district in KS as much as an R+5 district in AR now. Tradition or even economic interest doesn't matter because Obola.

[Ljube]

Why? With a right candidate, you'll get crossover votes. Baker, Hick, Rauner all won by crossover votes.

[dmmidmi]

This is simply not true. See: Michigan, Illinois, Colorado

[KCDem]

I guess I meant to say for Democrats in red states.

[J. J.]

I think last night proves this if nothing else. Discuss.

Not in Pennsylvania.