What percentage of voters just wants to be on the winning side? [View All]

[Alhena]

That's a political question I've wondered about for years, in many elections.

For months and months, Hillary seemed inevitable, and I'm convinced that there is a significant number of people who got on board her team just to be on the winning side. But now anyone cheering for Hillary will have had a rough go of it the last several days and it will only get rougher on Tuesday. I expect that many of them have decided they are tired of rooting for a loser and are now firmly on board the Obama bandwagon or will be after Tuesday.

How many voters fall in this category is unclear to me, and the Wisconsin primaries on February 19 should tell the tale. Hillary was up by 10 points in Wisconsin prior to yesterday's results, and it will be interesting to see how many voters Obama wins just based on his recent victories.