In Arkansas: The emergence of "Yellow Dog Republicans"

In the deep south it was said that many people would 'vote for a yellow (cowardly) dog before they would vote for a Republican.  They were called Yellow Dog Democrats.  Well not it seems that there are many who would vote for a yellow dog before they would vote for a Democrat.  They have become Yellow Dog Republicans.  Ab-so-lute-ly amazing.  What was that book that HRC wrote?  You know the one:  "It takes a village (of fools) to destroy a political party".  Yeah, that's it.

From the Arkansas Gazette:

The only difference was that one of the polls listed the candidate choices along with the candidates’ party affiliations while the other listed these same candidate choices but only by the candidates’ names and not with their party affiliations.

This was the utterly remarkable finding: Republicans performed 20 to 30 points better when they were identified as Republicans than when they weren’t. They led widely when identified as Republicans. They trailed by margins ranging from slim to significant when not.