Chaos Theory

According to Politico, Sen. John Kerry thinks Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" tampered with the Indiana Primary, helping Sen. Hillary Clinton to eke out a win. Ben Smith breaks down the numbers rationally:

The margin was about 18,500; Clinton only got 54% of the Republican votes, which made up 10% of the electorate. If none of those Republicans voted for either candidate, Obama would gain about 10,000. The question really is what share of Clinton's votes were Limbaugh voters. For them to have provided the margin of victory, by my math, about 38% of all her Republican voters -- that's a lot -- would have had to be voting tactically.

For the uninitiated, "Operation Chaos" is Rush's invitation for Republicans to vote for Hillary in open primaries, thus giving her the nomination and giving the GOP an easier target in November.

I briefly discussed this in March. Limbaugh's position -- besides his anatomically impossible one -- is the media louse up the Republicans' primaries (meaning somebody who bows to the altar of conservatism doesn't win), so we have every right to louse up the Democrats' primaries.

Let's call this what it is: prejudice. It's prejudicial against reporters, voters, and anybody who votes with half a brain. And with Sen. Clinton's chances of grabbing the nomination slipping away, it looks like most Republican voters have better things to do than tilt the process.