I think it’s just the Democrats “knew which way the wind was blowing,” and had “Republicans”(read: Democrats) positioned for this exactly. So they ran the “Republicans” against Democrats knowing that anyone with an R- in front of their name would win.
Now ask yourself FR and other conservative sites just happened to have a flood of people screaming how we had to vote for those ‘Republicans’ “No matter what”.
Well that make perfect sense. The RATs have been infiltrating the GOP ever since the Reagan landslide victories.
I remember that the “defections” were so numerous that they were reported weekly over several months on the alphabet news “shows”.
This is precisely why, today, there is no line of separation at all between the RNC and the DNC. They are one and the same.