I voted in the Michigan primary today, #81 in my precinct at 8:50am. (I was the only voter in the room at that moment.) I voted for Thompson because strategic voting bores me, because all the other candidates bore me, and because I genuinely believe he may still emerge as the winner. I don’t like McCain; rather, I admire him, and will vote for him in the general election if I have to. I neither like nor admire Romney; after all these months he still doesn’t evoke any response from me whatsoever. Here’s the information you’re really interested in: two of my office mates are confirmed left-wingers. Both voted in the Republican primary, and both appear to have voted for the person they genuinely want to support (i.e., they view as the least-bad among non-Democrat candidates). One voted for Ron Paul. I think you should dismiss this as an outlier; that guy has an odd (and not quite rational) mix of statist and libertarian beliefs. The other guy voted for McCain.