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Renarima posted...

In Florida, there was a race between Marco Rubio(R), Charlie Crist(I), and Kendrick Meeks(D). Charlie Crist is the moderate. He loses to Rubio, because all he really did was take all Kendrick Meeks voters. That is how that plays out in most scenarios. The Lieberman example is an outlier, because it is a really small state, he was a powerful politician, and because the state is so blue, voters were more willing to abandon the R nominee to get Lieberman over the progressive. It really is not a race, which btw was 18 years ago, that says anything about how popular progressive policy is.

In your own example, the independent former Republican still received more votes--with a CURRENT Republican on the ballot to potentially leech his support--than the Democratic candidate. What does that tell you about the VOTING POPULOUS?