… Whenever I use the NCAA basketball tournament’s bracket as an analogy for the Democratic presidential nomination, I can count on one friend who is extremely knowledgeable about Democratic politics to shake his head and rightly argue that voters cannot be conveniently sorted into tidy boxes—demographic, ideological, or cultural. …
To a certain extent, my friend is right. Real people view things in ways that may or may not seem logical to others, and things are often not terribly rigid. … At the same time, there are certain types of voters who are looking for the same kind of candidate and appeal as each other, and may recoil against the other contenders. CONT.
Charlie Cook