COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA — At Kirn Junior High School today, I met a handful of voters who had caucused with Democrats four years ago, and caucused as Republicans today.
Brenda and Bob Krivanek were Biden supporters in 2008, who then refused to back any other candidates when Biden didn’t reach the 15% threshhold in their precinct (although their daughter, Elle, tipped the entire precinct to Edwards by one vote). Tonight they showed up a bit undecided an then voted for Romney. Bob told me this with his shoulders slumped. He admitted they settled.
21-year-old Danny Schmidt caucused for Edwards in 2008, which he chalks up to youthful foolishness. “I was just 18,” he told me, “I was just against the conservatives because I went to Catholic school.” He primarily was concerned with foreign policy, saying “we obviously need some military intervention, but now we have way too much.”
It’s telling. The moderate Republican (Romney) gets Democrats, as does the most libertarian.
