[MaggieCarta]

Frustrated Democrats found in Snyder a Republican they could vote for, and many Democrats cast their first-ever vote for a Republican when they chose Snyder.

I knew it. The only people I know who voted for him in the primary were dyed in the wool dems.

[Mad-Margaret]

The only people I know who voted for him in the primary were dyed in the wool dems. I voted for him in the primary and I am far from a dyed in the wool dem. I couldn't stand Cox for many reasons. I thought Hoekstra was a neocon, Washington insider. (And boy! Has he turned out to be the whiner or what?) I would have voted for Bouchard, but he didn't have a hope in hell and I didn't want to lose the chance to make my vote count against Cox or Hoekstra. That left Snyder. And another reason I voted for him was that he was an outsider to the Michigan GOP establishment. I loath that group. So what a hoot it was to read Nolan Finley's column giving credit to the Michigan GOP. Even the blind squirrel .... Snyder won this election. The Michigan GOP simply rode his coattails.