Tennessee

I am convinced that the only reason this was possible is because we have an open primary system in our state. I won't reject out of hand that being listed first on the ballot has an effect--in fact, I think in a truly scientific election, different ballots would be generated for each possible order of the candidates running--but it stretches my imagination to think that that accounts for forty percent of the people voting in a primary. I personally assume that people voting in their party's primary probably care quite a lot who the candidate ends up being. Perhaps I am wrong about that, but I'd really like to see some data before rejecting my own hypothesis. Charlie Brown himself said that the reason he is now the Democratic candidate is because the state party is incompetent, so I don't find it too difficult to imagine that this was some sort of deliberate sabotage.